Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dangerous Woman (Paramount). When Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount Famous Lasky Corp., noticed the original title of this picture, The Woman Who Needed Killing, he called in advertising spreads which had cost a lot of money and renamed it himself. That any woman should need killing seemed to him an indictment of womanhood in general, perhaps of motherhood. Adolph Zukor would not stand for anything like that although he was probably forced to admit that Olga Baclanova, in this instance, acted badly. The wife of an Englishman in Africa, she flirted with her husband's friends and finally with...
...gave my articles to an American press agency in Paris. ... It offered me half of the income. I answered that I personally would not take a cent, but that the agency might deliver at my direction half the income from my articles, and that with this money I would publish in the Russian language and in foreign languages a whole series of Lenin's writings...
...There will be no stable government in China for a hundred years. By that time the money will all be gone and the bandits who make up the armies will have nothing left to fight...
When Dean Briggs of Harvard became Radcliffe's president in 1903 Radcliffe's resources consisted of three buildings and money for a fourth and funds, including scholarships, of less than $500,000. He immediately addressed himself to the financial needs. First came a library; then a dormitory to stand next to Bertram Hall in the new quadrangle on Shepard Street. By 1908 these were built and in use; by 1914 two other dormitories were built and occupied. After the war Dean Briggs undertook to add $1,000,000 to the college endowment, and at his last commencement as president...
...universities by feather-headed young men that don't look ahead to know the opportunities they have and to appreciate these opportunities. ... I don't want to criticize athletics or a great many extra-curriculum duties, but I think there is a great deal of time and money wasted on these things. . . . We must get our public and private schools down to a simpler curriculum...