Word: spent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thick grey curtains of rain descended upon the northwestern corner of Wisconsin. All week they brushed the forests, slowly, monotonously. Everything dripped and the rust-colored road from Lake Superior to small Brule, the inland riverbank settlement, developed treacherous potholes despite the thousands of dollars Wisconsin had just spent to make it a safe road for a President to travel. An Army truck transporting mail-of-state foundered and tipped over. A light passenger car transporting a heavy, round-shouldered figure out of the dismal wilderness, slithered into a rut, stuck, had to be dragged out by horses...
...made National Committeeman from Pennsylvania instead of Senator Reed, the obedient Mellon man. For explanation of Vare animus toward Secretary Mellon it was recalled that George Wharton Pepper had the Mellon money behind him when he opposed Vare for the Senate in 1926, and that far more money was spent for Pepper than for Vare in the slushy campaign for which Vare was later rejected at the Capitol...
Herbert Clark Hoover never spent a more eventful week than last...
...spend money on her to make her think she was being pursued by reporters, found it next to impossible to get my publicity-crazed sister into the water to train unless it was to the accompaniment of the click of camera shutters. She was so spoiled. ... I spent money for private photographers. This was necessary as we were so far from Los Angeles that newspapermen came out rarely. ... I want her to pay the $800 I spent...
...Harvard squad left Cambridge for New Haven yesterday morning and spent last night at the Choate School in Wallingfont, Conn...