Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...share. In the last depression Congress habitually gave the President lump sums to spend as he wished. Best guess last week was that Congress would indeed give the President what he wanted but this time with more specific instructions as to precisely where and how it should be spent...
...have so many well-organized, passionate, money-collecting friends. U. S. citizens have donated just $1,054 to their Red Cross specifically for Spain. The International Red Cross has received $57,000 from the American Red Cross for Spanish succor, dispassionately divided between Rightists & Leftists. The American Red Cross spent $41,000 repatriating U. S. citizens caught in Spain by the war and unable to escape by their own efforts. Some of the very ablest mercy work of the Spanish civil war has been done by the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker organization to which Mrs. Roosevelt gives...
...worried headmaster, Dr. Endicott Peabody, telephoned Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt in New York that her son was missing. "Well, call the police." said she. By morning the police had picked up the first ominous clue, in Springfield. Two boys had registered in a hotel as Dick and Henry Godernick, spent the evening, hurried out at midnight. In their room was found a letter: "Dear Mother: Soon will be home from school. It is all very boring. How is the baroness? Ha." There were also some school notes...
Chiura Obata's father was one of the Japanese artists who did their best 60 years ago to imitate Leonardo da Vinci. Little Obata was apprenticed at seven to a traditional master, spent two years learning to draw a circle and two straight lines. For seven years he was allowed no color. One result of this discipline was a skill which his Sacramento audience found as exciting as a circus. Another result, possibly, was that Obata took ship for California at 18. A good friend of the late great Botanist Luther Burbank, he still gives as much time...
...three years spent as "clinical sociologist" in the Menard Branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Mr. Clemmer played baseball, football and other games with the convicts, talked to them sympathetically when they were sick or downcast, won their confidence. He thus learned the identity of certain leaders, their qualifications and what their followers thought of them. One trait which every leader seemed to need to keep his following was that of being "right"-i. e., of not truckling to the prison authorities. Mr. Clemmer admits that leaders are often at the bottom of "conflict situations"-riots, mass demonstrations, group escapes...