Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presented the annual $10,000 Collier's magazine awards for "distinguished congressional service" to Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. (Rayburn gave his prize money to his home town of Bonham, Tex. for a library; Vandenberg gave his to the Park Congregational Church of Grand Rapids, Mich, as a memorial to his mother...
...morning after Woods's announcement they stormed housing offices for application forms, had nearly cleaned out some big city offices before the end of the day. By week's end 500,000 blanks were passed out and thousands of landlords had begun staking claims for more rent money...
...Theta Upsilon Fraternity pledges at Northern Illinois College of Optometry got even with Senior John Santarelli after he put them through an initiation "Hell Week." After dressing him in misfit shoes and clothes, they gave him a nickel spending money, put him on a plane at Chicago, and sent him off to Kansas City...
...Revenge" was made several years ago at a time when Italy was at its lowest in both morals and morale. Heads of families were finding it almost impossible to earn a living wage and still be honest. The young boy in this film makes more money on the black market than him father does in a factory. The sister takes to jitterbugging and wearing black-lace drawers. So when the Italian soldier comes home, the plight in which he finds him own family can be taken as somewhat typifying that of Italy at the time. "Revenge" was intended to carry...
...there hardly breathes a senior with soul so dead that he won't admit Graduation is worth the time and that the money can be managed somehow. It's simply that plans have to be made reasonably far in advance, and scores of seniors don't face the Graduation issue until too late. It isn't too late yet--the Class of 1949, and all others who will receive degrees in June, can still get the pesky details out of the way and appear in staggering numbers five weeks or so from...