Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miner sang: "How much money does a clergyman need, for reading out the gospel and mumbling the creed? He lives at home and he doesn't pay rent-if he gets a plugged nickel, he's a very lucky gent...
...flood control bill reported to the House last fortnight called for estimated expenditures of $473,000,000 with no money levied from the States benefited. President Coolidge, whose recommendation had been for a $296,400,000 program with 20% borne by the States, began the week by calculating out loud that the Committee's bill, of which the provisions were so sweeping that they might apply to every stream between the Appalachians and the Rockies, would triple itself before the work was finished, costing the U. S. more than anything it ever undertook except the last War. After this...
...four cases were, of course, appealed. Harry Ford Sinclair, looking like a tired Mussolini, had plenty of money left to go on arguing that any man with money enough is as fully entitled to shadow juries as is the U. S. Government. To support this contention, Sinclair's lawyers might even cite certain earlier activities of William J. Burns, when he was Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation under the defamed Daugherty regime. Another argument which, though it failed to impress Justice Siddons, the Sinclair lawyers may try out on the U. S. Supreme Court, is this...
...Prairie Oil Co. (closely affiliated with Standard Oil of Indiana). Mr. O'Neil skipped the country when the Oil Scandals broke. Later he returned from Europe to Canada and handed over the $800,000 to the Prairie Oil Co. to which he had "always felt" the money belonged...
...more farce about the newly married couple which was, in fact, less of an addition to this smoking room form of drama than a repetition of innumerable predecessors. The girl friend of the rich wife says to her, in effect: "I think your husband married you for money. I will flirt with him and we shall see." Her advances distress the stupid husband; his "pal" gives him this advice: "Your wife's friend is not flirting with you, she is kidding you. Pretend to be taken in and see how far she will go. In the meantime, I will...