Word: spendings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last the day of women has come in public affairs! No more shall newspaper editors and politicians spend months debating what course a man will follow; the thing to do is ask his wife. For it has just come to light that Mrs. Coolidge, five weeks before the famous "choose" message, embroidered into a White House coverlet the dates 1923-1929 in token of her stay there, thus predicting by her infallible womanly intuition what the mere men of the country did not accept as true for many months after. If only every candidate for office were married, the need...
...hoped by members of the class that, weather permitting, they may spend one of the regular Saturday afternoon ten-mile hikes this month, trotting through snow on snowshoes...
...evan- gelical program that would "recapture the imagination" of U. S. youth. Said the Rev. Dr. William Robert King, executive secretary of the Home Missions Council: "We, the churches of the United States, must do something big and adventurous to appeal to the spirit of youth." Six committees will spend the next two years working out a program to accomplish this...
...trains with all-steel cars was the Pennsylvania Railroad. Since 1907 it has bought no wooden ones. What wooden cars it owned then, it has gradually been retiring. Last year 559 went into the discard. Last week went the rest, when Pennsylvania directors authorized President William Wallace Atterbury to spend $20,000,000 to $21,000,-000 for 595 steel passenger, passenger-bag- gage, scenery, refrigerator and horse-ex-press cars. In reserve, for only the greatest of traffic emergencies, the road will keep 200 wooden passenger cars...
...first time women students at Columbia exceeded men in the university's total of 34,997. And last week two new colleges undertook to specialize in fitting women for strenuous modern life. Rich men's daughters assembled at Webber College, Babson Park, Florida. There they will spend the winter, learn to administer estates, specialize in the care of securities, real estate, hope to attain the degree of "B.B."-bachelor of business. Business men who sent their daughters included: Dr. Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, Statistician, Prudential Insurance Co. of America; W. E. Betteridge, President of Lakeside Biscuit Co., Toledo; Thomas...