Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissioner in 1937, to a radiant White House in 1941. Candidate McNutt, now Federal Security Administrator charged with supervising expenses of State unemployment insurance systems, forgave his overzealous friends but, embarrassed by talk in the U. S Senate, ordered the Indiana board's Federal funds cut by the amount the pamphlet's printing cost, said he believed it had been prepared before he took office. Cried he: "God knows I don't want any Federal money spent in promoting me personally...
...great one. Woodward-bred horses (up to July 1, 1939) have won 1,612 races, have earned more than $3,500,000 on U. S. and English tracks. Not all of this money went into Mr. Woodward's pocket. Horses sold as yearlings won $1,250,000 of this amount. In the past decade, three Woodward-owned horses have won the Kentucky Derby: Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), and Johnstown (1939). Five have captured the Belmont Stakes, considered by breeders, because of its longer distance (1½ miles), far more important than the Derby. Thrice Mr. Woodward has owned...
Last week the Senate Banking and Currency Committee put new Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones on the carpet, asked him about the success of Federal lending. To a query about the amount of losses on RFC loans to business, the retiring RFC Chairman admitted: "I am ashamed to tell you what I think it will be. It will be plenty...
...shrine of one man and one man only: William Cowper Brann (the Iconoclast). Once, on Brann's birthday, his disciple got drunk, visited his grave at Waco, and sat there all night communing with the soul of his friend, for every drink he took himself pouring an equal amount of whiskey...
...Musica-Coster had inflated the firm's assets by $21,025,658. Of this amount $2,869,483 was stolen from the firm. The rest had never existed to be stolen, was an incidental figment of the Coster speculation. Ex phony items: assets on Dec. 31, 1938 were $68,953,095; liabilities, $41,657,064; net worth...