Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Having interviewed multitudes of Congressmen, well-wishers, job-hunters, advisers, Herbert Clark Hoover left his temporary headquarters at the Mayflower Hotel, entrained for Florida. With him went Mrs. Hoover and an entourage of friends, newsmen, photographers, hawkshaws. Mr. Hoover had canceled his proposed West Indian trip, was to spend a pre-inaugural month on semi-vacation at the home of James Cash Penney, famed chain store dry-goods tycoon...
Promptly John Blymyer's two assistants were tried. John Curry was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. Wilbert Hess was found guilty and sentenced to spend from ten to twenty years in jail...
...much does the U. S. Government spend on Prohibition? From $13,000,000 to $15,000,000 yearly has been the usual direct appropriation for the Prohibition Department. Last week, however, Dry Senator William J. Harris, of Georgia, succeeded in getting the Senate Appropriations Committee to report a $25,000,000 increase in Prohibition funds. The Senator originally proposed $50,000,000, but the Committee halved the sum. The Senate as a whole has taken no action as yet on the proposal, which is a part of a current deficiency bill. Recently (TIME, Dec. 24) Wet Senator Bruce of Maryland...
...show them how to fight. . . . I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that I owe fully as much to the person holding ten shares of Standard Oil of Indiana . . . as I may owe one who has so much wealth that he has to hire experts to spend his income...
Dana Hall girls are not allowed to own phonographs. They have their music, nevertheless, in spite of the rules. Girls from this school spend over an hour in the music shop at least once a week listening to all the new releases. When they enter Wellesley they may enjoy their own music...