Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Health). In 1927, at 40, she inherited a sizable share of her union-hating father's Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., which dominated Colorado's northern coal fields. Josephine Roche turned the company into a laboratory for the social theories she had developed during 17 years she had spent in social work. She also ran it so efficiently that, in spite of high wages and furious competition from other Colorado mine owners who distrusted her methods, it became the most profitable coal company in the State...
...official Rightist-conducted tour was arranged primarily for French correspondents but New York Timesman George Axelsson managed to get there first and snoop around on his own for four days, then spent three on the conducted tour. London's Laborite Daily Herald insisted the French correspondents were "duped" when they saw no Italian garrison, the Herald's Paris office continuing to see a garrison of 30,000. Mr. Axelsson in an uncensored dispatch to the Times agreed with the French correspondents that there is no Italian garrison but an Italian and German aviation personnel of 500 and some...
...State Department has been able to demand that all U. S. agencies collecting and transmitting funds to Spain give strict account of their activities. Last week the Department announced that from May 1 to September 30 such agencies raised $548,765 in the U. S., spent $173,584 on administration and publicity, set aside reserves of $117,627 and sent to Spain for relief...
...American Committee for Spanish Relief, an organization whose treasurer is onetime U. S. Ambassador to Spain Ogden Haggerty Hammond, and from which Major General William Nafew Haskell withdrew saying it was not non-partisan but Rightist in his opinion, not only has sent no relief to Spain but spent $30,241 on publicity and administration while taking in only $28,635. This was attributed by Mr. Hammond chiefly to losses incurred with a Madison Square Garden pageant on May 19 which went sour. Bulk of Rightist relief came from the Brooklyn Tablet...
...well as the gentlemen who produced the evidence, that we had not taken it upon ourselves to investigate Communism or Fascism in either the United States or Spain. Our only concern has been Harvard and he Harvard ambulance; how the funds were collected here and how they were spent...