Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This, in Guthrie, Okla., was a fair sample of last week's utterance by New York's volatile progressive Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia who spent his day progressing from New York through Oklahoma, Texas, and Missouri, having himself photographed in everything from a western saddle...
...sorts of small & large contributions, many brought by Japanese school children shepherded by their teachers. In Joe Crew's nondescript kitty there was $10,800 last week when the Ambassador was authorized by Good Neighbor Roosevelt to establish this as a trust fund in perpetuity, income to be spent entirely in Japan "for purposes testifying to good will between Japan and the United States." Part of the money will be spent upkeeping graves of U. S. sailors buried in Japan, part repairing sites associated in one way or another with U. S. citizens notable in Japanese eyes, such...
...observers and hydraulic engineers in China were appalled by reports that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was debating whether to create a supreme diversion by ordering dynamited the principal dikes of the Yellow River, famed for ages as "China's Sorrow," upon which the American Red Cross alone has spent over $1,000,000 for flood control and famine relief in this area. Such dynamiting, experts warned, would inundate lands now inhabited by 40,000,000 Chinese and, while it would engulf large Japanese forces, might well rank as the greatest man-made catastrophe in history...
...found a National Theatre, while other Englishmen have been trying to prevent them. The British Government have tacitly been part of the Opposition, which argues that a subsidized theatre means bad plays. But a private committee headed by George Bernard Shaw has at last raised $750,000 and spent half of it buying a site in London's South Kensington, far from the theatre district. Last week, on the eve of Shakespeare's birthday (April 23), before a crowd of nearly 1,000, including U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Mr. Shaw formally accepted the deeds...
...seal. They said they had shot the seal in Marblehead Harbor, demanded $2 for killing it from the City Treasurer. When Treasurer William J. Shea wanted to know what it was all about, the students referred him to an old Massachusetts statute, passed in 1888. Treasurer Shea spent an hour hunting up the statute, found it, paid the $2. He also learned that the law required him to cut off and burn the seal's nose, as evidence a bounty had been paid. Descending to the basement, Shea carefully amputated the seal's nose, tossed it into...