Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact was disclosed that two young men named William Lavarre and Harold Hall had been commissioned by I. P. & P. to buy a chain of newspapers in the South (TIME, May 20). They bought four: Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, Columbia (S. C.) Record, Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald and Journal. Purchase money amounting to $870,000, the buyers told the Commission, was loaned to them...
...agreed to lend $2.500,000 for the newspaper purchases. After the Commission's investigations, I. P. & P. withheld the money...
...labor that would otherwise be discharged from the royal dockyards. . . . "We are indebted to the Board of Admiralty for the help they have rendered. . . . They have furnished us with loyal help toward achieving our objective with the least possible dislocation and hardship." Pained British taxpayers visioned millions of their money being spent vaguely on "naval repairs." Watching the Hoover-MacDonald naval parings, Japanese Naval Minister Takeshi Takerabe said: "We cannot fail to derive inspiration from such examples...
...dogs and birds as she usually did. The few old servitors at Starilec. humble, discreet, waited several days, then reported their mistress' disappearance. Out rushed eager search parties to comb crag and dale for "the richest woman in Jugoslavia." There was bound to be pots of money in it for the man who found her, perhaps wounded by some wild animal in the rocky woods...
Howard University was founded at Washington, D. C. in 1867 by General Oliver Otis Howard who commanded the Union Army in that neighborhood. The medical school, established soon thereafter, includes white and colored students. For almost 50 years the school had little money. Teachers received little pay. Then the Rockefeller General Education Board gave it $250,000, individual whites about $80,000 and Negroes a little more than $170,000. President of Howard is Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Negro...