Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tradition of alert, energetic lobbying, vote-swaying, political-threatening. Mr. Cherrington represents a faction of the League which conceives that Wheelerism has been misunderstood in the U. S.; that the League's moneyed lobbying has made the League almost unpopular; that the League's wisest course now is to spend its millions after the fashion of manufacturers of tomato soup and cigarets, on national advertising and an "educational" campaign...
...Sebastian Spering Kresge think Prohibition worth $500,000 in one lump? Cynics might suspect that it was because people who spend dimes and nickels in saloons are more likely to spend them in nickel-&-dime stores if there are no saloons...
University--"College" and "Sally in Our Alley." There are worse ways to spend the evening...
...reported that when Mr. Coolidge retires, having been in office for approximately five years, he will have saved two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from his salary. The annual income of the chief executive is seventy-five thousand dollars; those who know the president claim that he does not spend one-third of this amount. A little simple mathematics reveals the fact that "Economy Cal will-carry back to Vermont about a quarter of a million dollars...
...where it belongs." So said Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League last month. Last week there were rumblings among Anti-Salooners who gathered in Washington, D. C., for a caucus. They rumbled that Superintendent McBride was not "militant" enough. The League was planning to raise and spend a million per year for five years in a battle-to-the-death with 'leggers...