Word: millions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without severe internal convulsions and frantic scenes upon the floor that the House succeeded in obeying the Constitution by passing the Reapportionment bill. The measure, designed to produce a more equitable representation of the People, for a time was burdened with two amendments which would have excluded 15 million U. S. inhabitants from any representation whatsoever. This peculiar perversion of the bill's intent resulted from sectional prejudices and was accomplished by misinterpreting representation according to population as representation according to citizenship...
...wearer the right to call Italy's King "cousin." Arrayed in such dignity but brusque as ever, Benito Mussolini last week strode up the marble stairway that leads to the damasked Hall of Congregations in the Vatican.* In his pocket was a Bank of Italy check for 750 million lire ($39,225,000) and a certificate for one billion lire ($52,300,000) of Italian State bonds. In the Hall of Congregations, standing beneath an exquisite ivory crucifix, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, hands folded, waited to receive money and bonds and exchange formally with Signer Mussolini the State-&-Church reconciliation treaty...
...never lack for royal palaces. Last week Italian workmen and engineers, sent by King Zog's patron and protector, Dictator Mussolini, laid the foundations of a new royal palace, Zog's fifth, outside the grimy old capital city of Tirana. The building will cost more than one million dollars. His passion for mansions still unappeased, King Zog planned still a sixth palace in the ancient town of Kruga, home of Albania's 15th Century hero king, Scanderbeg the Great. Albanians recalled that at the time of King Zog's coronation last year, only the expressed intention...
Last week George Fisher Baker, near-billionaire chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, gave away another million dollars and again marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans), Augustus Juilliard (commission merchant, music), Julius Rosenwald (mailorder, Jews, Negroes), James B. Duke (tobacco, waterpower, his university, preachers), Mrs. Russell Sage (railroads, surveys) have given their scores of millions. All these have given largely and chiefly to found institutions and movements they have initiated...
...Council. Reason: serious illness.* Dr. Carl Safiord Patton, homiletic and practical theology professor, was elected to succeed Dr. Davis to the presidency. But he declined, preferring instead the pastorate of Los Angeles' First Congregational Church, whereupon his 1,750 new parishioners assembled, cheered in unison, voted a new million-dollar church...