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Word: spent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vermont's Green, shot Feb. 15, 1924, as a bystander in a Pennsylvania Avenue rum-gun fracas, was voted $7,500 by the Senate. He spent the money to pay immediate medical bills, later repaying the full amount to the Senate Contingent Fund. A permanent pension for him was discussed but never voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Passed a bill authorizing $25,000 to be spent policing the Hoover inauguration. ¶Passed a bill authorizing additional appropriations for vocational education. ¶Passed a bill transferring certain Indian claims in Idaho, Kansas and Oregon to the U. S. Court of Claims for settlement. ¶Passed a bill covering settlement by Interior Department of damage claims from Federal irrigation works on Indian-owned land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Last week a memorable meeting came at last to pass. Alfred Emanuel Smith and Herbert Clark Hoover spent 25 minutes together in the J. C. Penney sun-parlor at Miami Beach, trading yarns, smoking long black cigars, laughing, being good fellows

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover & Smith | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Parliament has voted to double that sum (TIME, Jan. 7), the Conservative Government is still procrastinating so outrageously that last week Laborites in the House of Commons, forced from Lord Eustace Percy the admission that not a penny of the huge fund has as yet been spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This is Ghastly! | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...year, the football team made a gross income of $773, 698.93, a net profit of $476,88.12. greatest in the University's history. All other sports showed losses. Track cost more than $20,000, basketball $12,000, baseball $10,000. As President Little desired, the football money is being spent to pay for the new football stadium, for a women's athletic building, for the Intramural Sports building, for the Michigan hockey rink, for the golf course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jobless Little | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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