Word: spending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...achieved up Pike's Peak. . . . No, Sir . . . not on your life. I seem to have heard also of publicity loving individuals who like to dance a marathon from Worcester to Boston, Mass, and also . . . what about those others who, perhaps on the spur of the moment endeavour to spend the rest of their lives on the top of a flagpole. DANIEL J. NEAL Late of London, England Boston, Mass...
Affairs in Washington came to a head when the Senate, on resolution of Senator Borah, directed its Naval Affairs Committee to spend $10.000 investigating the activities of William B. Shearer at the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1927 (TIME, Sept. 16). The Naval Committee pondered a little and then appointed a sub committee of three to conduct the actual hearing. Members of the subcommittee...
...appearance, once a news-gatherer himself (Minneapolis Tribune), had nothing of world import to impart. He said that if Chief Justice William Howard Taft intended to resign, the President had not been so informed; and that if Governor Fred Warren Green of Michigan* (who had arrived that morning to spend a few days at the White House) were going to become Secretary of Labor when James John Davis retires on March 4, it was indeed news to the President...
...Expressions is a related study. Last week he was in Africa collecting specimens for a purpose which Yale's President James Rowland Angell reluctantly (for fear of meddlesome publicity) told the psychologists. That purpose is no less than to establish an anthropoid farm in Florida, where Professor Yerkes will spend most of his time comparing simian and human emotional and mental processes...
Said Patron Kahn: "I travel 2,000 miles a year just to spend an evening at Ravinia. I return to New York refreshed...