Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, that same afternoon, campaign funds were on a dozen lashing tongues. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democrat, told of a Republican dinner in Chicago in 1920 where Vice President Coolidge made "a rip snorting speech" before "the big fat fellows from all over the country, who had more money than they knew what to do with." Senator Borah made another plea for his Republican retribution fund:* "I believe the [Sinclair] conspiracy was formed in the city of Chicago at the convention in 1920 by a few men unbeknown to the party itself, unbeknown to the rank and file...
Senator Borah thereupon announced that, as he saw it, the G. O. P. is a continuing institution. A change of management is not a change of entity. Senator Borah called for conscience money from Republicans ashamed for their party...
...Money began trickling in slowly, and Senator Borah was variously applauded and deplored. Many observers credited him as of old with having "Honor," "political decency," "civic conscience." In Boston, where Chairman Butler lives, the Transcript sneered at "The Puritan first-page virtue of Hon. William E. Borah of Idaho...
Captain Dollar bought other ships, sent them to China & Japan. He traveled back and forth over the Pacific. Thirty-three times his wife accompanied him. And with more and more money coming in, he expanded until he owned some 40 ships, eight of them sailing steadily round the world. Thirty-six fly the U. S. flag, four, British...
...witnesses to detect, beneath a bucket of gibberish, the light of an inextinguishable beauty. Presented now in carpentered English, for a series of special matinees, the glory of the play is more than ever dimmed. Its simple story, of a helter-skelter family of aristocrats who have squandered their money and who are forced to say farewell to the house they have lived in and the orchard they have loved, is merely an illustration of what a great dramatist can do with the theme of miser, mortgage, and out you go. There is no reason why it should be intoned...