Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operating near Swampscott, since he had not; not to report that the heavens were about to fall every time a Cabinet member or Senator came to White Court, since all members of the Cabinet and all Senators now at the Capital had been invited to come to Swampscott and spend a week end if they liked, to get away from the heat, to discuss if they cared to, in a general way, the program for next winter; and especially not to report oftener than once in two weeks that Secretary Weeks had resigned or was about to resign-which...
...During the 1908 visit to Australia my duties as executive officer of the Nebraska made it impossible for me to spend as much time ashore as I would have liked, but during this visit it will be my privilege and pleasure more fully to come to know your splendid land...
...happened that on that same evening the Governors of four states were sojourning in the city of Wall Street and Broadway, and by preference chose to spend their time and money on Broadway. They were present at the opening. The comedian Julius Tannen, informed of their presence, dragged them up on the stage. Governor Martin of Florida, a broad-shouldered young husky, was first up, trying to look beneficent. Governor McMullen of Nebraska followed, very serious, worried. Governor Trapp of Oklahoma was grandiose in evening clothes. Governor Smith of New York was last up, grinning and apparently finding it great...
...Albert C. Ritchie, Governor of Maryland, also a Democrat, attacked the system of giving Federal aid to the states in road building, etc., on a 50-50 basis (the U. S. giving a certain amount to spend in certain ways for certain purposes, provided the state will contribute an equal amount). He condemned it because it was a way for the Federal Government to gain control over state activities in a manner never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution. He attacked it also because it was unfair in its operation: in that Nevada, at one extreme, paying...
Simultaneous with the nativity of rotoring in the U. S., the gigantic Count von Luckner, famed German sea-raider in wartime, declared he would spend two years circling the globe in Herr Flettner's Buckau, "to make rotorships known in all countries...