Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physicians are proud of the fact that they donate one million dollars' worth of free medical services to the needy every day and never refuse to help anyone, whether he can pay or not. Last week Southern physicians gasped as they heard of a bold infringement of this humanitarian code. Five of the eight doctors serving the 3,000 souls of Atmore, Ala., and five of their colleagues in cotton-growing Escambia County printed an advertisement in the Atmore Advance warning Escambia County's prospective mothers that henceforth they would demand cash on delivery. The ad: "We wish...
...rise of Adolf Hitler, Dorothy Thompson last December joined Publicists Herbert Sebastian Agar (Louisville Courier-Journal) and Hamilton Fish Armstrong (Foreign Affairs) in composing a "Re-Declaration of American Faith" to which, on Benjamin Franklin's birthday (January 17), the National Student Federation set out to obtain "several million'' signatures. First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration of war: "Today our people are the objects of undeclared, but not unavowed, wars. . . . The challenge...
...view of the "two to two and one half million dollars" necessary for building a new House, the Council recommended as an "intermediary" measure the provision of a dining hall, library, and common room for the 260 men annually denied rooms in the Houses...
Asking for gifts to the extent of three million dollars, to take care of scholarship funds, research, and Faculty additions, Holmes concluded that "neither the fortunes nor the idealism of the graduates and friends of Harvard have suffered so severely that such gifts are not within the bounds of reasonable hope...
Asking for gifts to the extent of three million dollars, to take care of scholarship funds, research, and Faculty additions, Holmes concluded that "neither the fortunes nor the idealism of the graduates and friends of Harvard have suffered so severely that such gifts are not within the bounds of reasonable hope...