Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoff can sympathize with Chicago's famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone in the matter of the risk and privations a big promoter must suffer. Once "Boo Boo" felt it would be good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally...
...rumor (more or less verified here) is that the interests behind Smith stand ready to spend $100,000,000 to elect him by foul means or fair, but it is not believed that that amount of money can buy the self respect and conscience of America. It's a dirty business they're engaged in and I regret to see a magazine I once admired collaborating with men determined to buy the Presidency of my country...
Saul G. Bron, affable, heavyset, but not gross, able Russian financier arrived on the Mauretania. He headed a commission of industrial leaders prepared, they said, to spend in behalf of Soviet Russia. $40,000,000 for machinery to aid in the modernizing of agricultural methods. Said Saul Bron: "The construction of tractors and trucks for the development of the country is our main concern. Our people are too poor to think of buying pleasure automobiles...
While these things were going on in China last week, callow Nationalist officials prattled of grandiose schemes. Most pompous was that of Wang Peh-chun, Minister of Communications. With his department $700,000,000 in debt, he propounded a "General Plan on Communications." He would spend $10,000,000 developing long distance telephone service; would build 77 radio stations. He thought $150,000 would build the radio stations, $1,000,000 operate them. More magnificent in plans, he proposed to build 60 locomotives, 150 passenger coaches, 1,300 freight cars. He would establish flying routes between Peking and half...
...nation. True economy would be effected by the erection of Federal buildings, especially in the numerous instances where sites acquired many years ago have been left vacant because the administration did not desire to have these expenditures appear in the budget. It is not economy to refuse to spend money and to have our soldiers living in barracks which the Chief of Staff of the Army recently stated were indecent and below the standard for the meanest type of housing permitted anywhere. And the wise, properly timed construction of needed public improvements would substantially tend to lessen the evils...