Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator forgets, I think, that the population of Pennsylvania is over 9,000,000 people, and all of our adults who are citizens are permitted to vote. In the Senator's home State, where three-fourths of the adult citizens are disfranchised, it doubtless is not necessary to spend a dollar...
...members of the four-way syndicate are: Standard Oil of N. J. (Mr. Teagle's firm), Standard Oil of N. Y., Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Co., Gulf Refining Co., and Atlantic Refining Co. The syndicate at first will spend $5,000,000 prospecting for oil; at present contemplates no production...
...expects that a renascence of religious fervor is to spring forth from the hearts of those who wend their way to Northfield or to Lake George or any other of the collegiate Chautauquas. Of course they do afford pleasant rendezvous with other brightened and enlightened who can spend holiday hours hearing inferior lectures which they would cut were they given at college. So perhaps they are quite necessary. At least they do keep the Billy Sunday tradition vital in the college world and give many a young wall flower the chance to escape her destiny of being born to bloom...
...this is to be a success, it must be conducted on a purely business basis, and those students who are best qualified to work well toward this end will be the desirable members of the committee. In the fall, it will be necessary for members of this committee to spend a week or ten days in collecting funds when the work will be difficult and exacting. Men engaged in athletics, or on publications, will hardly be able to give the amount of time which the work will require. The collection of the Budget will be made in such...
...Passed a bill authorizing the Army to spend $150,000,000 over a period of five years to improve the air service. (Bill went to the Senate...