Word: misspent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reports the Southern Baptist Handbook for 1932, published last week. Listed as money misspent: $46,200,000 a year on tobacco; $26,000,000 on cinema; $21,580,000 on automobile outings; $35,000,000 on soft drinks and chewing gum; more than $43,000,000 on cosmetics. The Southern Baptist Church needs $40,000,000. "Look about you. . . . quit YOUR WHINING!" cries the Handbook...
...served on the committee investigating War contracts and expenditures, Harry Micajah Daugherty, Attorney General and Ohio gang leader, made him a special assistant to prosecute War frauds. He helped the U. S. win back a trifling $14,000,000 of the hundreds of millions alleged to have been misspent, before resigning in 1926. In 1929 he was named chairman of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, a post he quit last November when Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown persuaded Governor Myers Cooper to appoint him to the Senate, vice Elder Statesman Theodore Elijah Burton, deceased. He comes up for election next...