Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money went: Vare spent $30,000 for campaign letters, $12,000 for postage, $21,000 for printing, the remainder, for incidentals; Pinchot, $6,000 to his private secretary, who had leave of absence to manage his campaign, the rest mainly for letters and postage; Pepper, $2,500 contributed to his campaign committee...
...investigation of alleged excessive campaign expenditures (TIME, May 31, THE CONGRESS). Last week the candidates filed their individual expenses (the campaign committees had two weeks longer in which to file their schedules). In the race for the Senate, William S. Vare (Wet), the successful candidate in the primary, spent $71,435.80 out of his own pocket, Governor Pinchot who ran third spent $43,767.31 of his money, and Senator Pepper who ran second depleted his pocket only...
Miss Knox, brown and shingled of hair, blue of eye, pert and minxful as her Cleone, declared to popeyed news gatherers: "I wrote the book in a few weeks, but, if I had realized so many distinguished people would have taken it seriously, I should have spent much more time and pains upon it.... I had wanted to write ever since I was a child, but everything I wrote was always returned. Then one day I got the idea of writing a 'diary...
Questioned further, she confessed to having spent most of her life in complete rusticity at Quinton. Castle, her father's seat at Portaferry, County Down, North Ireland. In the "diary" Quinton Castle appears under its Celtic name, Castle Kearney, a red herring unnoticed by reviewers...
...rolling mills, agricultural lands, 20,000 employes. The ancestor in 1704 willed that no other than his lineal descendants might own stock in his Estate. But War and aftermath have impoverished these descendants. They had to appeal to the Anaconda Copper Co. and to William Averell Harriman (who has spent much time in Europe since the War snapping up industrial bargains) to refinance them...