Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations for catching a highly newsworthy item in your blurb for the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions [TIME, April 23]., Charming Missionary Woodbridge and his sober-sided backers are out to split the Presbyterian church. This plight would be news indeed to worldly cynics...
...told the Press that he would never say a word about the operations of the fund. The "gold increment" of devaluation remained as such on the Treasury's balance sheets until last week, when $2,000,000,000 suddenly dropped out of that figure and a new item cropped up, a liability of $1,800,000,000 to the Exchange Stabilization Fund. The other $200,000,000 had presumably been transferred to the Fund's credit with the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Only inference from the changed bookkeeping was that Secretary Morgenthau was getting ready...
...John Richard ("Goat Gland") Brinkley's troublesome XER, across the Mexican border, acclaimed itself largest in North America with 75,000 watts. WLW's new 500,000-watt equipment makes it ten times stronger than any of its 20 biggest rivals in the U. S. Most spectacular item is its antenna-a steel frame 831 ft. tall, 35 ft. thick at the middle, tapering up to a slim spire and down almost to a point. Total cost of the venture was close to $500,000. WLW's programs should be picked up by an ordinary set under...
Among the less popular forms of athletic recreation should be listed sitting on the cushions in Divinity Chapel. Some kind soul donated a fund "for upholstering the cushions in Divinity Chapel", and although no repair work has been needed for years the Tressurer's Report annually carries the pathetic item "Balance fund for upholstering cushions in Divinity Chapel...
...issue of Dec. 12, 1932, we published a news item to the effect that Thomas Taylor, 67, of Prescott, Ariz., retired superintendent of the United Verde Copper Co., before committing suicide, wrote a will leaving $150,000 to his wife and son, and $10,000 to his daughter, Lillian Taylor Briggs "to go to hell...