Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read in the Senate, the President's faithful Joe Robinson rose to offer an amendment to it. He proposed that the President be empowered to appoint engineering boards of review to resurvey 'Quoddy and the canal, that if their reports were favorable he be authorized to spend $10,000,000 of this year's relief money to continue the canal, $9,000,000 to continue...
...Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson. Italy's No. 1 enemy in Ethiopia was disease and Sir Aldo is a world-famed specialist in tropical diseases. Most of his experience he acquired as a medical officer of the British Colonial Office in Uganda and Ceylon. He was accustomed to spend half the year in London, where he was director of mycology in the School of Tropical Medicine, three months in the southern U. S. where he organized the schools of tropical medicine at Tulane and Louisiana State Universities. When Benito Mussolini summoned big, jovial Sir Aldo home to Rome...
...football heroes, child actors, prodigious poets and boy Senators have demonstrated time & again the perils and penalties of early fame. Spotlighted in Washington last week was the rarer but less tragic phenomenon of a man to fame came late. Seventeen years ago Dr. Francis Everett retired to California to spend last years in the sun. Like that of every physician, his life in South Dakota's Black Hills had been a hard one which had him no fame and very little Legend has it that Dr. Townsend's new life began when he looked out of his California...
...league baseball game with Vice President Garner as often as possible. He likes being near the Burning Tree Golf Club where he shoots in the 80's with Democratic Senator Barkley or Republican Sena tor McNary for opponents. He likes being where he can spend an evening watching a wrestling match or sitting in on a game of bridge or poker, which he plays expertly, with considerable bluffing. He likes to be where his hosts of bigwig friends are com ing & going, where cronies like Joseph Tumulty, Marvin Mclntyre and Steve Early can drop...
...exchange is a two-room affair on the second floor of the Dixie Terminal Building. In size it ranks 14th among registered markets, which means that the total value of transactions amounts to about $400,000 per month. The Cincinnati Exchange provides large, deep couches for its members, who spend a large part of their time on the floor playing pinochle...