Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollars, demanding the 100? gold dollars which the U. S. solemnly covenanted to pay. When Minister Alfaro left, he admitted that he got no promise that the debtor would live up to its engagement. ¶ Weary from the heavy job of setting up machinery to spend his $4,000,000,000 works fund and trying to spur Congress into action, the President got some relief when, for the first time this year, the weather was pleasant enough for him to spend an afternoon on the Potomac aboard the Sequoia. ¶ Fortnight ago the President and Chief Justice Hughes considered...
...opportunity for Freshman and Sophomores in Harvard to spend a year of study at Lingnan University in southern China will be offered for the academic year 1935-36 through a special exchange student plan...
Last week, with a fresh $4,000,000,000 in his pocket and national elections still far away, President Roosevelt heard not a murmur when he announced that he might shortly spend $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 on a jobless census. Since he aimed to employ some 600,000 white-collar idle for the job, it seemed highly unlikely that the census would be conducted along the quick and economical lines of the 1917 draft at a cost of $300,000, as proposed in his column this week by United Feature Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson...
Before King Ananda enters the "classical college" he must go to Siam with his mother to get his crown. After that, on the Queen Mother's insistence and with the permission of the Siamese Parliament, he will spend two more years on his studies in Switzerland...
...maze of intersections known as Harvard Square, with a few chutes to the subway station as finishing touches. Not only would it provide work for the unemployed, but best of all the worry-wrinkles on the foreheads of our politicians would subside when they found a new way to spend some thousands of dollars. Lest some be inclined to scoff at this proposal, the new historic example of the use of P. W. A. funds in a mid-western city is cited. With much labor and expense a marsh was drained. Immediately the suburbanites cried out that the scenery...