Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulty was aggravated because Ohio's State Legislature, due to assemble in special session next week, squabbled last winter over relief funds, adjourned without solving the problem. Chicago's Relief Administration, which gets its funds from a city real-estate tax and the State Relief Commission, had spent its entire 1938 allowance from the city $5,404,000, by May 1 and no more State funds were due till June 1. Last week, Illinois Governor Henry Horner called his State Legislature into a special session to pry money from downstate legislators who think that Chicago already gets more...
Last week, the grand jury handed down a scandalous 20,000-word report. It charged that "millions of dollars" of Waterbury money had been spent in an illegal manner since 1930. Bench warrants were issued for the arrest for fraud of Lieutenant Governor Hayes, ex-Comptroller Leary, 24 of their henchmen and associates, including the State Commissioner of Statute Revision, several State Senators. The "rampant corruption" of which they were accused: cashing unnumbered city checks, spending city funds without vouchers, splitting fees with contractors for imaginary services, bribing State legislators (notably to get a law passed requiring...
...President Hutchins, once the "boy wonder'' of education, now turned metaphysician, Porter Sargent says: "He would be sure to get the Catholic vote. . . . The Pope is in agreement with Hutchins. as are Mussolini and Hitler. The fascists recruit from good men spent, scared and in retreat. . . . Hutchins' 'good books' include political documents of no import today, a good deal of myth for the credulous and some pornography not current. . . . But Hutchins may not be unredeemable, if he could only get away from his medievalists, if [Philosopher Mortimer J.] Adler could be sent...
Newton's greatest gifts were in mathematics and physics, but he was frequently bored with or indifferent to these branches of learning, and spent most of his time on alchemy, history, theology and mysticism. He edited geographical works, made telescopes and ear trumpets, dissected animal organs and studied cider-making. Newton was not stimulated by passing winds of criticism and discussion. In fact they annoyed him so much, by taking up his time and disturbing his quiet, that he often took refuge from the world by keeping his work to himself...
...Indicated that it would buy, through Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., 8,000,000 pounds of skim milk powder, equivalent to 88,000,000 pounds of fluid skim milk. FSCC has spent $26,000,000 since January buying up surplus commodities to distribute through relief agencies. Milk production is 8% above last year; prices are lower. Fierce milk wars have been going on in New York, Buffalo, Detroit...