Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maxhide, resumed his royal status in Washington's Union Station where he emerged from his train dressed in native costume of brown robe, white undershirt, jeweled turban and dagger. Promptly and rudely nicknamed "Sultan Muskrat" by Washington reporters, Oman's monarch naturally received the same amount of official attention that would have gone to England's George VI. After a 21-gun salute and exhibition drill from the Third Cavalry and 16th Field Artillery, he was guest of honor at a 35-place luncheon at the White House where the President wore morning clothes, then...
...fundamental solution of the problem. Last month, WPA offered an account of what the nation has been getting for its money. Through three ERA and two deficiency appropriation acts, a total of $8,671,078,685 has been granted by Congress for relief. More than half of this amount has been allocated to WPA, making it the New Deal's greatest spending agency. Wages and salaries accounted for 85% of the money spent. Administrative costs were well under the 5% maximum allowed...
...boycott on German goods, and 2) to stand as the nucleus of a U. S. army to defend the country against Communism. To achieve the first, Bund members are urged to patronize only stores run by Aryans who give members stamps entitling them to a discount relative to the amount they purchase. To achieve the second, Bundsmen have thus far done no more than make impassioned homesick speeches, parade with wooden guns. Sleek Mr. Kuhn, who looks and talks like an embryo Göring, last week failed to lead his organization through its latest crisis. He was in Brussels...
There is no formal application blank for the scholarships, but students wishing to be considered should list the amount of their April term bill, their approximate resources, the amount they are receiving from University loan or beneficiary aid funds, whether they have a scholarship or student employment position, what activities they had participated in, their group in the rank list, and any other information they think might be of value to the committee...
Having had the opportunity to see West Point from "the inside" my impressions are offered as graphically as possible-the more so by reason of the direct contrast with Harvard. Where this university is noted for its middle western intellectualism and all-round liberalism and even a fair amount of social consciousness, West Point represents the opposite in its democracy where money, name, or position mean literally nothing...