Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the Interior, preparatory to resigning. Dr. Work did, nevertheless, make some statements. He said: "We need only about two months. . . . Our campaign will be a real pep rally!" He said: "I never heard of a President of the United States making campaign speeches." He said the total cost of Hooverizing the U. S. electorate would be kept below the sums spent in other years by the G. O. P.-$5,300,000 for Harding-Coolidge, $3,000,000 for Coolidge-Dawes. Stated reason: "We have candidates who will not need so large a sum." In Chicago...
...whiskey, gin, wines, beer. Acrobats had it hidden in their kimonos. A Spanish couple hid it beneath their infants in an upper berth. The trains were run on a siding for the search and as word spread of what was happening, bottles showered out of the car windows. Possession cost $5 per bottle in fines. After twelve hours of searching, the Malone inspectors were satisfied they had found everything. The circus was allowed to proceed to Ogdensburg, where it had missed a $15,000 "gate" and was nearly late for the next scheduled performance. After the circus folk had left...
Propaganda. The first item of Hooverizing publicity was a report, probably exaggerated but meant to illustrate the famed Hoover efficiency, that to save time and reduce cost, Nominee Herbert Hoover buys his suits six at a time, hats three at a time, shoes by the dozen, collars by the gross...
...proper share of attention, from philanthropists, from able musicians, from audiences. For example: In Manhattan, there are two important outdoor organizations. One is the Goldman Band which plays songs and marches, operatic arias and favorite symphonies in Central Park, or on the campus of New York University. These concerts cost nothing to hear. Sponsored by the Guggenheims (Mr. & Mrs. Daniel and Mr. & Mrs. Murray), they are conducted by Edwin Franko Goldman, who, ever since the concerts began eleven years ago, has never missed a performance. For denizens of Manhattan who prefer cigaret smoking to gum-chewing, Willem van Hoogstraten...
...National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. H. Longstreet Taylor of St. Paul in his presidential address emphasized the need for careful supervision of "cured" patients. This is an economic as well as a sociologic need since a large proportion of pulmonary patients are public charges and every relapse doubles the original cost of care. The "cure to end the cure" costs comparatively little and has far reaching benevolent effects, according to figures of the Metropolitan Life Insurance...