Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commanding Admiral null was having to move out for his Commander-in-Chief as it was. Besides, the party was to include Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Kellogg, Mrs. Wilbur. It seemed likely that President & Mrs. Coolidge would maintain only a statutory residence on the Texas in Havana; that they would spend two nights (Jan. 15 & 16) as President Gerardo Machado's guests on the $2,000,000 freshly redecorated third floor of the Cuban Presidential Palace...
...lowest bidders. The bidders include the U. S. arsenals, which naturally can underbid private concerns. Private munitions-making for the U. S. tends to be not only profitless but costly. Members of the Army Ordnance Associations- civilian industries organized under reserve officers and the Assistant Secretary of War-spend large sums keeping up-to-date their factory plans and personnel for munitions-making. It would be not only just but wise for the U. S. to give "educational" orders to such industries. During a war, the U. S. would depend upon civilian arsenals almost entirely. The U. S. arsenals could...
...George Arthur Buttrick, now pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan,† was at Buffalo when he told a group of Presbyterian ministers how he evaded the enticements of his morning paper. He always read it standing up and so remained always aware that he must spend no time on drivel no matter how entertainingly written. That was shrewd self-management, remarked the Presbyterians, and his formula made the rounds of the ministers. Last week it appeared again-in William H. Leach's magazine on parish administration, Church Management. Editor Leach revived it in warning ministers against...
...candid history, she planned to follow it with a volume about a trip to Russia?for which "I would hail a New World," was a sort of preface. This second volume she did not accomplish. When she had finished My Life, in the spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving in her hands like a bright tenuous flag, and who had wrapped life closely about her like a brilliant shawl, one summer day tied a red scarf around...
...having failed to secure a copy you spend a miserable Christmas, the editor of the Lampon can claim complete exoneration. It is doubtful if as much may be said...