Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highway on general principles, remarking "we are not running a public park up here, we are trying to run a school for military instruction." Colonel Greene held to his written permit and threatened to sue the Federal Government, since the State had appropriated $250,000 for the highway and spent $3,000 in preliminary work. It appeared that the present chief highway through the Academy grounds is difficult to traverse as it passes through the field of gunfire established when the Cadets are having artillery practice and is therefore closed during these periods...
Grand Jury. Finally Mr. Stephenson himself testified before the Grand Jury now engaged in investigating charges of corrupt politics in Indiana. Taken from Michigan City to Indianapolis under prison guard escort, Mr. Stephenson spent more than five hours before the Grand Jury, smoked cigars with gusto, was then motored back to jail where no cigars are permitted. The jury also heard testimony from Mis? Meade and had previously been given the evidence found in the black boxes. After hearing the Stephenson story the jury refused to adjourn, although the term of criminal court for which they were sitting ended last...
...services rendered; nor, to my knowledge, has any hospital to which I have sent them received a penny. Yet I am sure the majority of these persons have received compensation from insurance companies for injuries received. A month ago I attended a man by the roadside and spent an hour with him and sent him off carrying my best bandages. He now writes to me: 'I did not call you. It was a policeman. Get your fee from the police...
...brands from other manufacturers. Of such costly cigarets about 34,000,000 are sold each day, the customers being not particular about their brands. Union Tobacco will try to concentrate this "floating" consumption on a few brands which it will "puff" with $10,000,000 of advertising to be spent the next two years...
Died. U. S. Congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker, 40, Republican, of the Third Oregon District. He jumped or fell into San Francisco Bay and was drowned. Mr. Crumpacker had spent the previous night at the San Francisco Emergency Hospital, after having been found sitting on a curbstone and stating that he had been poisoned. He was born in Valparaiso, Ind., and had been in Congress since 1925. Mr. Crumpacker had been an Army captain in the World...