Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, arrived in Florence, Italy with Grandson John Roosevelt to spend a week at the villa of Myron Charles Taylor, reformed economic royalist, board chairman of U. S. Steel, rumored last week to be i) about to retire and 2) a candidate for U. S. Ambassador to England...
Hangover. Two little fiscal headaches remained over from fiscal 1937. Although Congress had been in session for six months prior to fiscal New Year's day, it had not succeeded in passing all the regular appropriation bills so that departments would have money to spend beginning July 1. With the War and Interior Departments supply bills still unpassed, the Senate quietly took a recess on fiscal New Year's eve. Result: on New Year's morning a "continuing resolution," allowing those Departments to continue spending for two weeks at the same rate as last year, was hurriedly...
...girls at Branchville, Conn., directed by Miss Lois Goodrich; for boys (8 to 16) at Pottersville, N. J., under William L. Gunn; and a new pioneer camp for older boys (13 to 16) at Matamoras, Pa., under Martin J. Feely. The camps stay open until Sept. 1. Youngsters spend at least a fortnight in camp and many of them stay a month. The Branchville camp runs an extra ten days for a group of older girls (16 to 20) known as the Life Lifers' Club...
...London, Conn, for the Harvard-Yale Regatta, joined Harvard's young, bespectacled Tom Bolles in the coach's launch as he put the Crimson shells through final practice Spins. Thus fortified, Harvard's varsity next day launched into a low, calm, powerful stroke, let Yale spend itself in a gallant first two miles. Midway up the Thames, Harvard led by a length, was gaining at 30 strokes to the minute. At the three-mile mark Yale frantically went to 34, then to 36, but Tom Bolles's first Crimson crew, ably stroked by Jim Chace, plowed...
...news publisher's greatest challenge. The young man from California who, 42 years ago, took up that challenge, was courageous as well as rich. He bargained the late John Roll McLean down from $360,000 to $180,000 for his wobbly Morning Journal and then proceeded to spend $7,500,000 combatting fiery Joseph Pulitzer's World on its own ground. He boldly bought away Pulitzer's ablest men, including Arthur Brisbane and Morrill Goddard, the genius who gave him the American Weekly. He made the Spanish-American War his personal affair for the Journal'?, sake...