Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back this airy promise with something solid for jobless men to chew on, Don Carlos ordered a half-million free meals served daily by the Government to Chile's unemployed. State pawnshops obeyed an order to return gratis sewing machines and all tools pawned by the "certified unemployed." Joyous crowds soon flocked around every pawnshop, roared "Viva Davila...
...bell. Then, like Jacob, he wrestled with a visiting angel, extracting five concessions. The last one St. Patrick judged the nicest: on Judgment Day he would be deputized to judge the whole Irish race. A large court he will need; several years ago it was calculated there were 100 million persons of Irish blood in the world. St. Patrick died March 17, 493, in Saul, County Down and his corpse was wrapped in a shroud woven by St. Bridgid...
...National Bank who pleaded guilty to a $1,500,000 embezzlement, onetime president of American Bankers' Association; of old age; in Milwaukee. Rising from runner to head of his bank and national fame, Banker Bigelow plunged into the wheat market in the wake of John Warne ("Bet a Million") Gates. With the connivance of subordinates, he tapped the bank's funds to finance his speculation. The Gates corner in May wheat collapsed in 1905; Banker Bigelow was trapped. Since serving six years of a ten-year sentence in Leavenworth, he had lived in obscurity...
Master Courtney was positive that he could open the chests. Declared he: "There isn't a lock made that hasn't its weak point." In his Manhattan shop, whose basement is the Grand Lodge Room of his A. A. M. L., he has a million keys, thousands of locks, a model airplane built entirely of lock parts and keys. The airplane's radio and engine function. Master Courtney declares that he can fit a key to any motor car if he has the manufacturer's number and if he is sure that the applicant...
...banquet was planned for them. By unhappy chance the banquet chairman was Dr. James E. Rose. Negro moderator of the Rochester Baptist Association. Learning of this. Southern Baptist President William Joseph McGlothlin excused himself regretfully. He was there not only personally, he explained, but as the representative of several million Southern Baptists...