Word: spent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have seen service in military hospitals or as ambulanciers either in this country or abroad. Volunteers for this service will drill one hour each week without compensation, but when on active duty all members of the corps will be paid by the state, according to his rank, for time spent in the service...
Before the beginning of the war he spent 21 years in India as a member of the India Civil Service, during which time he held many offices. At various times he acted as secretary to the government of India, private secretary to Lord Curzon, Chief of Staff to the present King and Queen when they visited India in 1905, and a member of the Council of India...
Side by side with the discouraging news from Russia are printed the results of the Congressional investigation in the Hog Island shipyard, Philadelphia. Unchallenged evidence points out land sold to the Government for ten to twenty times its normal price, and thousands of dollars spent to no purpose by the contractors. The responsibility rests upon certain "great American capitalists," not named...
...wasting of public funds while the Government is being so severely criticized for sluggishness aggravates the situation and places blame where, it is not deserved. Because funds are spent and no results are forthcoming, support falls away from the Administration...
Although we may be slow in securing rifles and supplies, yet out contribution in funds has not been slight. To partially remedy the lack of men with complete training, equipment and accessories, we have furnished certain other "sinews of war." In ten months the Government has spent seven billion dollars, of which one half has been loaned to the Allies. To have used is no small aid to the nations struggling against Germany. Without investigations, censure, or even criticism valuable progress has been made...