Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insurance salesman James Roosevelt was an instant success. As son of the then Governor of New York and likeliest future President of the U. S., he had many valuable contacts. Business boomed so fast that James Roosevelt forsook the law school after one year to spend all his time acquiring financial independence...
...Presbyterians run 53 colleges in the U. S., maintain Presbyterian centres in 52 more. Outstanding Presbyterian colleges: Centre, Davidson, Hamilton, Lafayette, Washington & Jefferson.* Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Presbyterian Church (North), its Board of Christian Education intends to spend the next three years raising $10,000,000 for the endowment and running expenses of these 105 colleges and Presbyterian centres. Last week the Presbyterians announced that the first gift to their Sesquicentennial Fund came from an Episcopalian. Rt. Rev. Robert Lewis Paddock, retired bishop of Oregon, donated...
...Hammond, Ind., Max M. Nowak, after 35 years building up the retail feed business founded by his father, last year sold $1,500,000 worth of livestock feed. To do so, Max Nowak had to spend $7,008 in 1937 for clerical help, auditors and attorneys to make out 1,100 tax reports, to pay $20,000 in taxes to 28 States and the Federal Government. Said he last week as he sold out to Vitality Mills, Inc.: "It is not merely the amount of tax I have to pay. It's also the annoyance of having to report...
...Elmont, L. I., John Hecker went to spend the night with his friend John Jackson. Guest Hecker, to provide better light, set an oil lamp on a stove. It exploded. Host Jackson, to put out the fire, emptied a gallon jar on the flames. It contained kerosene...
...first fellowship holders will be decided on by the Committee sometime late in April. The winners, probably numbering between 12 and 15 will start their academic duties this September. It is hoped that most of them will be able to spend a full year but applications for half-year courses are also being considered...