Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Federal Court last week, put up $7,500 in Government bonds and cash to bail out a rumpled, disgruntled ex-candidate for President, Nicholas Dozenberg, alias George Morris, better known as Earl Browder, 48-year-old Communist leader. Indicted on a passport-fraud charge, he had already spent one night in the detention pen. Hester Huntington had met him for the first time the day before. Said she: "I did it on principle." Grateful Mr. Browder walked out of jail to await trial...
...phase of the peace drive petered to a close last week at Castel Gandolfo, Italy. One after the other the world's Big Men-Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, Chamberlain-had reneged, bungled, excused or disqualified themselves from the job of proposing the one Big Plan the world had spent two months hoping for-a Peace Plan...
...week by Minister of Supply Dr. Leslie Burgin who appeared to be familiar with the transaction mentioned. It was simply not true, said Dr. Burgin, that "Firm B" was intimidated into raising its bid. In the course of his mild remarks, the Minister of Supply revealed that Britain had spent on armaments over ?110,000,000 ($440,000,000) since the war broke, or $7,274 per minute...
...hrer apparently has secured sufficient funds to be able to forego the 20% capital levy on all German property threatened last February but which never materialized. However this year the immense Hitler Winter Relief Fund, to which Gentiles as well as Jews are virtually forced to contribute, is being spent at the discretion of Nazi bigwigs not only for charity but in prosecuting the war. Another money squeeze is the Volkswagon subscription. Since the summer of 1938 the organization created to manufacture Adolf Hitler's famed Volkswagon or "People's Car" has been collecting $2.00 per week from...
Wheeler's body was in the morgue of the Worcester City Hospital last night, waiting to be claimed by relatives. Clay spent the night at the Shrewsbury police station and is expected to return here this morning...