Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former plan calling for $100,000, for the renovations of the present Colonial Club as it stands, located on Quincy Street near the Harvard Union, was considered a rather futile expenditure since such a sum spent in the property already existing there would be throwing good money after bad in the opinion of those who have been actively engaged in the plans...
...when he was a man, in the '80s Harry Dean bought the schooner Pedro Gorino in Norway. For a while he traded, making money, saving it. Then one day he met a certain Portuguese official and was surprised to hear him say, after a little palaver: "I am offering you the vast territory of Portuguese East Africa including the city of Lorenco Marques for ?50,000 sterling." The territory was cheap because it stood between English and Boers, who were having a war. Dean wanted to snap up the offer with the aid of the tycoons...
...think you could do a lot more for girls and women by paying them better wages than you can by subscribing money to rescue them after they have gotten into trouble." So, in 1926, wrote Senator James Couzens of Michigan when asked (by Mr. Kresge) to contribute $1,000 to a home for girls.* Accustomed, however, is Mr. Kresge to reflections upon his philanthropy. His gift of $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League in 1927 was followed by a statement from the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment that Kresge stores were selling homebrew outfits, cocktail shakers and other accessories...
...will not give any money to any church the pastor of which indulges in tobacco. Yet no fanatic is Mr. Kresge. Offered a drink, offered a cigar, he refuses, but politely...
...bounded by Broadway, Central Park West, 62nd street and 63rd street, sold for $12,000,000, will be the site of a 65-story office building. The Century was dedicated in 1909 as a great national theatre where Art was to prevail over Commerce. But Art lost so much money that Commerce finally took over the theatre, where Morris Gest produced Aphrodite and The Miracle. No details of the proposed building have been announced but its 65 stories will undoubtedly rank it with the world's highest. Cost of land and building is estimated...