Word: spent
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Public Buildings. The first public buildings bill passed since the War, was enacted to relieve the Government's housing shortage. It provided $165,000,000 to be spent over several years. To prevent the inevitable free-for-all fight that would have ensued among "pork" starved Congressmen, the unique expedient was adopted of allowing the Secretary of the Treasury to decide how the money should be spent (subject, however, to Congressional veto). Incidents. In the first rank of incidentals, aside from legislation were: 1) The ousting (TIME, April 19) of Mr. Brookhart from the Senate in favor of Daniel...
Totals. The campaign committees filed their expenditures as required by law in Pennsylvania, and showed approximately $1,620,000 spent for the Pepper ticket, $670,000 spent for the Vare ticket and $195,000 spent for Pinchot...
Kudos Another week of Commencements was spent by the colleges (TIME,June 21) and distinguished citizens from all walks of life were called to many rostra to be honored. It was the centenary of railroading in the U. S., so several road presidents entered the academic scene. Editors and publishers were saluted, their services having lately been deemed important amid modern complexities. Kudos conferred during the week...
...tired referee that staggered out of a Manhattan ring last week where awkward Light-Heavyweight Champion Paul Berlenbach had been defending himself against flat -footed Challenger Billy ("Young") Stribling. The latter had spent all but three of 15 rounds hugging close to his rangy opponent, out of range of a vague but blasting left hand that has sent better men than he to sleep. It was the referee's frequent and unpleasant duty to pull the two wrestlers apart and insist that they box. Only in the seventh to the ninth round did Stribling look anything like the fast-stepping...
...history records--ought surely to be more than this nation can stomach. Mr. Coolidge's religion, apparently, is of a piece with that of the leading layman of the Episcopal Church in America, who, with the backing of the dominant leader in the President's own cabinet, has just spent over eight times more in a senatorial primary than any candidate is known to have spent before, and bribed with ten dollar bills one-third of the voters of a great state...