Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockefeller has also pledged five million dollars, on a 50-50 basis with Tennessee and North Carolina, for land purchases to create the Great Smoky National Park (TIME...
...dominated by the Schoellkopf family, with whom Mr. Carlisle is associated in Niagara-Hudson. Marine Union Investors was formed in January 1929 by the same group ? notably George Franklin Rand, Jacob F. Schoelkopf Jr. and Seymour H. Knox ? who later organized Marine Midland Corp., hundred-million-dollar group-banking unit (TIME, Sept. 30). It also was partly a Marine Midland holding company and partly an investment trust. Inasmuch as the bankers and the utility men were operating in the same northern New York district there was be tween them an obvious geographical com munity of interest...
...million and 500,000 Republican voters in Pennsylvania went to the primary polls last week to deal a new hand all around in State politics. Within twelve hours they had retired Senator Joseph Ridgway ("Old Joe") Grundy to his Bristol yarn mills, created a vacancy in President Hoover's Cabinet, smashed the hopes of Senator-reject William Scott Vare of becoming G. O. P. boss of the State, registered their opinion on Prohibition, recalled to high office one of their ablest and most distinguished citizens...
...votes cast for other candidates than the man who won with 10,000 are simply wasted. In efficient Germany, on the contrary, each "surplus vote'' is totalled up to the credit of the party for which it is cast. Then if the German Socialist Party, for example, has several million such votes to its credit, the party chiefs are allowed to name and send to the Reichstag a number of deputies proportional to this surplus. Thus, in a German election, "every vote counts...
Musical ? EARL CARROLL'S SKETCH BOOK, FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN, SIMPLE SIMON, SON'S o' GUNS...