Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Commerce next year. As a rule, if Congressmen have fault to find with Budget estimates it is that they are too large. But at this hearing, the Congressmen listened respectfully to Director Julius Klein of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Mr. Klein protested that the money set down for his Bureau in the Budget was too small. "The situation in South America," he said, "is getting much more important, as you all know, in connection with the trip of the President-Elect and also, more particularly, in connection with the drive of Europeans for those markets...
Coal conference at Pittsburgh, which made businessmen realize more than ever pure science's money value...
...fossils; he was making the American Museum's vertebrate collection the best in the world; he was grouping and arranging exhibits for their best educational value. Outside the Museum he was lucidly teaching biology and zoology at Columbia, scientifically reorganizing the New York Zoological Park, and deftly getting money support from municipal authorities. One vexation he had. Administrative and organization work and the preparation of his paleontological papers prevented his writing the many books whose subjects tumbled through his thoughts...
...Delaware, an Episcopal boarding school will be established at Middletown, name, headmaster, still undecided. As usual in Delaware, the money will come from a member of the du Pont family, builders of roads, parks, manufacturers of collars, dynamite, automobiles. The member is Alexis Felix du Pont, vice-president of the du Pont Co., Wilmington. He, slim, tall, fair, slightly bald, made many a munition fortune during the War, plays the baritone horn in the Police band...
After 25 years' service full professors at Yale should earn enough money "to maintain a home in a ten-room house which he owns free of mortgage, to keep one servant, and to pay for some occasional service, and to provide an education for his children on an equality with that obtained by the general run of students at this university. Life at this level now costs about $15,000 or $16,000 a year...