Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first letter she has ever written me in more than 20 years. I must give vent to my emotions. I am not writing for notoreity - not for debates - but for action. Put someone wise. Mr. Baker, Nat. Relief Director, went there to supervise. The people here give money and nine chances out of ten it is used to pay wages - directly or indirectly to clerks that have no more heart than Nero. Put him wise. Brig. Gen. H. A. Drum goes there with his staff. They likewise should be put wise. The good goes there, but I wouldn...
...Whether the official of the French Foreign Office who gave the document to Horan received money from him or not, we don't know. More likely, however, he realized the danger of the agreement to France and wanted to nullify...
...Harvard graduate, John Cowles, and his father. Its morning and evening editions have different names, but the monopoly is complete- the result of several consolidations. Castigators have often said that a monopoly breeds stagnation-not to mention other moral evils-but in Des Moines, the Cowles are spending more money in putting out an alert, progressive paper than, others do in fighting competitors. Old and famed as a morning-evening-Sunday newspaper is the Kansas City Star (in the morning it is called the Times). The Times and the Star are as essential to Kansas City as coffee for breakfast...
...Said he: "Mr. Borglum's head of General Lee everyone recognized. Mr. Lukeman's head of General Lee few people recognize. The nose is crooked, the left arm looks withered and paralyzed, the hilt of the sword is gone and the stirrup of his saddle is broken off. The money is all gone, and the Lukeman carving of General Lee is a mutilated imperfection that cannot be rectified...
Parson Faunce's hobbies are: Chinese students, of whom Brown's campus has a plethora; football, of which he knows nothing, but loyally supports; freshman teas, where gangling first year men stand awkward, watching Mrs. W. H. P. F. pour Chinese tea with deft, graceful hands; money-raising, of which he is past master, successful with everybody but Brown Graduate John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who has given Brown but one small building and but half of that. Tycoon Rockefeller would not give the money except with the proviso that the edifice bear his name. So Rockefeller Hall, undergraduate meeting place...