Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...address was on art. Excerpts: "Our country is giving an increasing amount of attention to art. . . . We have been making a new nation out of raw materials...
...White House refused to reveal the amount of the Coolidge contribution. The Community Chest officials were tightlipped. But a wicked rumor flew around the capital that the President's check was for "Twenty-five dollars and no cents...
...Nashville, Tenn., of a memorial to Presidents Jackson, Polk and Johnson.* The Commission will also include three Senators chosen by the president of the Senate, three U. S. Representatives chosen by the Speaker of the House, six prominent Tennesseeans. The government will appropriate $300,000 when an equal amount has been raised by private subscription...
...place in three steps: 1) A German sugar-seller contracts with a French buyer for so many thousand pounds at the current price and the sugar is shipped; 2) The seller collects his money in marks from the German Treasury, and the Reparations Commission then credits Germany with the amount of the payment, just as though it had been made to the Commission in gold; 3) Meanwhile the French dealer who received the sugar sells it and makes payment to the French-Government in francs, whereupon the Reparations-Commission certifies that France has received the German payment, just as though...
Exactly 1,888 years ago last week Caligula was assassinated for insult to a Praetorian tribune. He was only 29, but into the few years of his manhood he packed a rare amount of extravagance, cruelty, debauchery...