Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disgrace. It was second degree murder and it brought David Curtis Stephenson a life sentence. Of course, life sentences were largely figures of speech-lifers were usually set free after 20 or 25 years. But even after 20 years he would come out an old man. He would have spent what are generally termed "the best years of a man's life" in the ignominious occupation of making cane chairs in a prison factory. If he came out in 1950-how many of the men who were boys when he was a boy would be still alive...
...glean personal benefits from the situation. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, established his intimacy with Mr. Ford; said: "Twice this year I have gone to Dearborn and have talked to him about the Dearborn Independent articles. On my most recent visit?on May 11?Mr. Ford, with whom I spent five hours at his experimental plant, told me he had made up his mind to discontinue absolutely and permanently in any publication owned by him all articles such as those that had given offense to Jews. He added that if his orders were violated he would?I quote his words?'shut...
Half a million golden pounds ($2,433,000) were spent to provide, last week in London, a welcome for Ahmed Fuad I, King of Egypt...
...last week for their regular summer conference and discussion of world economics with their good friend, Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. All had been in the U. S. before, but severally. All had met before, but in Europe, where heretofore Governor Strong has spent his summers visiting with them. These comrades in finance, these truly international bankers, were...
Officers. Because C. King Woodbridge of Detroit, during two terms as president of the International Advertising Association, had corrected the organization's finances from a deficit of more than $30,000 to a cash balance of $10,354.71 and had spent only $94,627.94 last year, the association elected him president for a third term, over the strong contest that Charles C. Younggreen of Milwaukee pretended to give him. Detroit will be the association's next meeting place...