Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patten explained that Mr. Upham had a "taking" way with him. Mr. Upham used to say to Mr. Patten: "I am the dearest friend you've got. I cost you the most money." Mr. Patten, realizing that the deficit had to be met, handed over a check for $25,000. Mr. Upham said he would soon deliver the bonds...
...same time, Senator Borah published a letter that he had just written to Chairman Butler: ". . . The Republican party received large sums . . . from Mr. Sinclair, which the Republican party cannot in honor and decency keep. . . . The whole transaction . . . had in view an ulterior and sinister purpose. . . . I feel that this money should be returned to the source from which it came. We cannot in self-respect or in justice to the voters in the party keep it. . . . I venture the opinion that there are plenty of Republicans who will be glad to contribute from one dollar up to any reasonable...
Five million dollars of the money extracted by John D. Rockefeller from Pennsylvania's oil-bearing substrata were last week applied to perpetuate the surface grandeur of 600 square miles of the Appalachian chain far south of Pennsylvania. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial fund announced that it had underwritten half of the $10,000,000 fund sought for the Great Smoky Mountains National park. Public subscription and the legislatures of North Carolina and Tennessee had provided most of the other $5,000,000 required to buy what will be the outstanding national park in the eastern...
...fair to remember that a Republican majority has at all times been in command of the New York Legislature while Smith was governor, and it is the Legislature that votes appropriation bills. There is a curious game played in New York which consists of the Republican Legislature spending the money and then denouncing Smith as a waster. On the other hand, it is fair to say that Smith's theory of government requires the expenditure of more than an average sum for such purposes as the up-keep of State hospitals and the modernization of prisons, and that in this...
Here it is that the Harvard Fund proves its value. For two years the money received through it has been turned over to the University with no questions, no restrictions. With each year more alumni find this a convenient method of giving. This is one matter to which the old shibboleth "No gift too small, and none too large" applies. The plan doubtless has its defects, but thus far it has functioned satisfactorily, and its increasing popularity points to future success...