Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luxury of rage was recklessly indulged in, last week, by the big, pugnacious, florid statesman who guards the Empire's money bags, the Rt. Hon. Winston ("Winnie") Leonard Spencer Churchill...
...dared Conservatives fail to fall in behind the Chancellor? The fact of their daring proved once more how muddlesome and namby-pamby is the leadership of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Last week the Party was definitely split and undetermined on the issue presented by Mr. Churchill's money bill: namely, should the Government pay in whole or in part the allowed claims of loyal Irish subjects of His Majesty who had suffered destruction of their property during the Sinn Fein insurrections (1916-20). Should a Loyalist whose mansion had been burned down by mobsmen get a whole new house...
...persons unhappily married. Throughout the U. S., courts were denying the legality of decrees obtained in certain Mexican states, previously havens for the fretfully wedded. Some Reno divorces were even questioned. And the French government, having discovered that U. S. divorces were bringing Paris much questionable publicity, and money for no one but U. S. lawyers, had drastically stiffened French requirements. Therefore Arturo del Toro determined to do something for persons shackled to distasteful mates; something also for the State of Sonora, and something for himself...
...broke the bank at Monte Carlo," last week. Even if he had broken the bank, it would have been no staggering feat, for breaking-the-bank simply means that the banker of one roulette table is obliged to go to the cashier of the house and get some more money. Players winning as little as 5,000 francs ($200) have sometimes broken-the-bank...
...noised abroad that the undergraduate publications at Harvard were in favor of refusing Edward S. Harkness' gift of $11,000,000, it was generally conceded that the editors of the Harvard Lampoon and the Crimson were "out of order." The prevailing opinion seems to be that colleges should accept money under any circumstances at all times and from anybody who wishes to donate...