Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess of Towers. Nudged by the coincidence that both have the same dreams at night, they fall in love once more, again with tragic consequences when Peter Ibbetson goes to jail for murder. In this crisis their faculty of "dreaming true" is convenient. Divided by day, they spend their nights together, roaming the happy landscapes of illusion until both die, almost simultaneously...
...close to his training and tradition and an opportunity was lost-because Secretary Dern was too complacent in fighting Mr. Ickes for a share of Public Works. . . . Those hundreds of millions-which must be spent some day-all were set aside for Mr. Ickes not to spend, or went to Mr. Hopkins for raking leaves and boondoggling. Hundreds of millions more are being poured down the same rat-holes-while the equipment of our Army remains obsolete and insufficient...
Completely out of tune with the Record's New Deal preachment of "Spend! Spend! Spend!" the advertisement was signed by William Randolph Hearst who had run it in his own 28 papers and 60 others throughout the land. With no outlet of his own in Philadelphia, he had bought space for his anti-New Deal advertisement in the reactionary Inquirer. When Julius David Stern, shirtsleeve publisher of the Record, saw it there, he picked it up, reprinted it free, used it as an excuse for another of his stand-up fights with a man whom most other publishers prudently...
...month ago, large posters appeared in the Houses announcing a Tercentenary program for November 8 to which all students were most cordially invited. Emphasis was placed on the interesting speakers; special arrangements were made for the accomodation of undergraduates. However since most of the Crimson gentry plan to spend the weekend in Princeton and New York, one is inclined either to doubt the sincerity of the invitation or to speculate on the blindness of the worthy graduate sponsors...
This talk marks the third year in which Morison has opened the Freshman entertainment program with his almost traditional "Story of Harvard Yard." It is considered most appropriate as the initial Union extra-curricular meeting, since it outlines the history of the area in which the Yardlings will spend their first collegiate year...