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...Margaret Sanger, President of the League in the U. S., declared that her country was going ''on a biological joyride"; that the Government might better expend the millions now paid out for charities in bonuses to morons, criminals and imbeciles who refrain from bearing offspring...
...average a student may safely be said to expend approximately $11 to get to see the game, but no one has ever tried to estimate how many thousands of dollars will be expended by University men for the well-known "incidentals" which always go with the trip to Yale...
...rate is more in line with the open market rate on acceptances of 2 to 1⅞%, and call money at 2. It has also been surmised that the new rate indicated that the Bank sought to expend its loans to earn more money, and that it indicated that the Reserve authorities did not expect higher money rates this Fall to any considerable extent. This latter conjecture is important if true; a sudden rise in money rates would not only prove a real shock to security traders, but interrupt much foreign and domestic financing, including perhaps several railroad mergers...
Following the President's announcement that suits would be instituted, the House passed a resolution (with one Texan?Blanton?dissenting) to authorize the President to expend $100,000 in prosecution. In the Senate the Democrats set up a cry for the resignation of Secretary Denby, of Attorney General Daugherty, of every official suspected of "misfeasance or malfeasance" in office...
...editor of The World . . . There is a type of American! What force, what energy ("dynamic," I said of him to some one. "No?cyclonic!" they corrected). I asked him, when I was able to get a word in edgeways, how he managed to revitalize, he seemed to me to expend so much energy. He said he got it back from me, from every one, that what he gives out he gets back; it is a sort of circle. He was so vibrant that I found my heart thumping with excitement, as though I had drunk champagne, which I hadn...