Word: spending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oilman Henry Latham Doherty announced the President's annual birthday balls (poliomyelitis benefits) for Jan. 30. William Donner Roosevelt, 4, only one of the President's seven grandchildren not to spend Christmas at the White House, emptied his coin bank in Philadelphia and bought the first five tickets...
...expected to keep busy with individual projects, like planning a household budget, in addition to her class work. For her regular studies she meets for half-hour weekly "conferences" and a two-hour seminar with each of her instructors and her faculty adviser. Students have no lectures, textbooks, spend most of their working hours in the library or dropping in on busy people to ask questions...
Central figure in the show is the U. S. "Secretary of Entertainment" in an unnamed President's Cabinet. Impersonated by old Joe Whitehead, one of Madison Street's great grey-derby-&-checked-veit comics 30 years ago, this character is a veteran ham determined to spend lots of government money on actors in spite of the "Secretary of the Budget," Al Smith, the Liberty League and an unrealistically tight-fisted committee of U. S. Senators. Very much on the awful, side of O Say Can You Sing? are some of the unbelievably corn-fed wisecracks which Librettists...
...Since '29-So Much Extra Cash To Spend," lushed the Wall Street Journal last week in advertising copy which was simply a facsimile of its front page with ringed items about record automobile show attendance, a coming Florida boom and fat extra dividends. November was the greatest dividend month in history, with total declarations, mostly payable before Christmas, mostly inspired by the Federal tax on undistributed profits, footing up to more than...
...requires, offered the remainder for sale at $500,000 each. The ten books, kept in the vault of the Nassau County Trust Co. in Mineola. L. I., are not displayed by the publisher in accordance with Lawrence's will, although anyone with $500,000 to spend can buy a copy. Consequently Critic Canby, reading one of the two copies in the Library of Congress was one of the most fortunate of book reviewers, since few readers are in a position to disagree with his judgments on the literary merit and historical value of The Mint...