Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With tilted cigar in one corner of his mouth, Senator Reed relishingly continued the grill. He spent much time seeking for traces of Anti-Saloon League complicity, but Mr. Pinchot said that there was no use, since the League had thown him over and followed Senator Pepper as the better bet," although Pinchot was the bone-dry candidate. Senator Reed observed: "They could be happy with either if the other dear charmer were away...
When the Committee had ferreted through the accounts of Pinchot and Pepper, they examined the winning candidate's records and found that Vare, the light-wine and beer man, had spent upwards of $500,000, much of it in cash. Edward M. Kenna of Pittsburgh, of the Vare western headquarters, Allegheny County Treasurer for six years (at $6,500 a year), admitted after being pressed by Senator Reed, that he had contributed $20,000 of his own cash outright. Others in the Pittsburgh district donated amounts totaling...
...common sense" defense of everyone's expenses. Wages of political workers had risen like other wages, he said. It had cost $42,000 merely to mail one letter to every registered Pennsylvania voter. Huge advertisements had been thought necessary to combat the appetizing Vare beer cry. Political moneys spent in Pennsylvania were "as legitimate as money given to a church." If there was a culprit it was no man but the direct primary itself...
...other humanitarian organization, private or public, can compare with the Rockefeller Foundation in the extent and thoroughness of its activities. Last year it spent $9,113,730 through its International Health Board, China Medical Board, Division of Medical Education, Division of Studies. Its remedial work covered the world...
...dealers in musical instruments and materials-more than 1,000 of them-for an annual convention. For five days they sat in sessions-little sessions, big sessions-talked music, not in a hushed, long-haired way, but loudly, statistically. "More than a billion dollars," they were told, "is spent each year by the people of the U. S. on music in all its phases. . . . Ten million pianos in use today in the U. S. alone...