Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan, President Little took several ideas. Michigan had a football team that was making money. President Little insisted that the surplus be turned over to building more athletic fields so that all men and women in the University could exercise...
Vermont's Green, shot Feb. 15, 1924, as a bystander in a Pennsylvania Avenue rum-gun fracas, was voted $7,500 by the Senate. He spent the money to pay immediate medical bills, later repaying the full amount to the Senate Contingent Fund. A permanent pension for him was discussed but never voted...
...which the Senate thought, on the eve of the Chapman deal's consummation, that" it smelled, was not only a matter of money. Rubicund Senator McKellar of Tennessee complained loudly that a onetime Shipping Board official, Joseph Edward Sheedy, was in shameful cahoots with Mr. Chapman. Cried Senator Mc-Kellar...
...When the 'ricks' find a 'sarker' or victim with money†, it 'becomes the object of the 'hammerer' to 'gazoomph' him; and this or any swindle is known as 'slinging...
...gift of this large sum of money is an example of the present tendency of generous benefactors definitely to stipulate for what particular purposes this money is to be used. One recalls the recent donations to Vassar, the University of Michigan, and, overtopping them all in generosity, that of eleven million dollars to Harvard University to establish the House Plan. Evidently such restrictive stipulations may be considered by some, as President Little in the case of the stipulated donation to the University of Michigan, unnecessarily to hamper the authorities in attaining the general objective with the best possible results...