Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caught the train and that anyhow Congress had not appropriated money for that purpose. He has more power over Treasury expenditures than the President, must see every check that is written from 1? to $1,000,000,000. He can be overridden by no Government official. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl has been tsar of U. S. Treasury expenditures since 1921. He is responsible to Congress alone, interprets Congressional law with literal exactness. He was appointed by President Harding after he had led the Republican Party in the election of 1918 to its first major Congressional comeback since the debacle...
...checkers have been organized here by a committee which includes: Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36, chairman; Robert Amory, Jr. '36; William L. Clark '36; and Judson Bemis '36. As representatives in the various Houses they have appointed: Derie Nusbaum '36, Winthrop; Raymond S. Clark '36. Kirkland: George S. Franklin Jr. '36, Eliot; Rodman W. Paul '36, Dunster; Robert Grinnell '36, Lowell: Henry V. Poor '36, Adams; and Arthur M. Sherwood '36, Leverett...
...race. Limelight went to the post, through a sea of glistening mackintoshes, a 5-to-1 favorite. Up to the quarter-mile Limelight held the lead, seemed likely to win his nth race of the season. Then up out of the mud pounded a very dark horse indeed, Raymond, a starter at 33-to-1. Raymond's jockey was a scrawny little South African named George Nicholl. Raymond's owner was the great South African diamond tycoon. Sir Abe Bailey. Raymond finished an easy winner. His Majesty's Limelight was not even in the money. "The King...
...upon the newsstands at 10? the copy came Today, the weekly that Professor Raymond Moley left President Roosevelt's side to edit, with Vincent Astor's money behind him and Journalist V. V. McNitt's experience behind them both. "Chiselers In Action" shouted a red headband and in the cover cartoon a rotund Andrew Mellon wearing J. P. Morgan's watch-chain chopped a hole in the side of the dory S. S. Recovery, apparently preferring the Rugged Individualism life preserver around his neck to the NRA sail bellying nobly from the mast...
Good shots: The street crowd dancing in the drizzle under umbrellas; children running down the hill stairway to get a paper lantern; Raymond Cordy, his taxi bumped from behind, stopping, starting to argue before he gets his head out the window; drunken Paul Olivier terrifying the other patrons of a cabaret by fondling a revolver with a view to suicide, readily giving up to the headwaiter, then pulling a second from another pocket; The final shot from above the deserted street in which wait the abandoned cab and flower cart...