Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...antithesis, the A. A. P. A., has received money at various times from some 200,000 persons. A single contribution has been enough to get oneself listed as a member. Annual dues have not been collected. Only some 25,000 persons contributed last year. The bulk of the money for increasing the membership and influence has been contributed by wealthy members of the Pierre Samuel du Pont, Charles H. Sabin, Haley Fiske type. Until this year, the A. A. P. A. had only one office, in Baltimore. Its founder and guiding spirit, Captain William H. Stayton, was not dependent...
...announced last winter that it would raise and spend $2,000,000 in this autumn's elections. Last week the A. A. P. A. announced that it was writing to its 200,000 enrolment and asking $10 from each person. It promised to send the money "straight to the firing line" to help elect anti-Prohibition or modificationist Congressmen. Also, to make sure which men it wanted to support and which to fight, the A. A. P. A. sent questionnaires to all Congressional candidates...
...expert was needed to find out why the National Railways of Mexico have for so long been making so little money. Mexico might have sought her expert in the. U. S. (where most miles of railway are), or in Great Britain (where express trains make longest, fastest non-stop runs), or even in Scandinavia (for Swedes are great railway builders to the minor nations...
...happy circumstance of tolerance. Their chief fear now is that a politico-economic condition might insidiously arise to throttle them again. An effort to prevent such a thing is the $1,000 prize award announced this week by the New York Jewish Tribune. Its judges will give the money to the U. S. Jew or non-Jew who will have contributed most to the interests of U. S. Jews during the year ending...
VOLPONE-The career of a Venetian money-glutton in the days before Venice was the Niagara Falls of the upper classes (TIME, April...