Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team, with the exception of Wilson and Macdonald, were excused from practice yesterday afternoon. Wilson reported to brush up on his guard assignments and Macdonald spent a large part of the practice in an intensive punting drill...
...wife to Florida for their honeymoon. Years earlier he had bought two miles of Palm Beach waterfront, built the first house in Palm Beach, an immensity named the Wigwam, out of compliment to his Tammany antecedents. As he grew older and more feeble, the Crokers left Palm Beach, spent most of their time in County Dublin. In 1922. while the children of his first marriage were trying desperately to have him declared mentally unfit. ex-Boss Croker died...
...money by subdividing her property and selling it in lots. In 1932 she worked hard for Roosevelt's election, for a time was county relief chairman, ran with no success for Congress. But all such activities were strictly extracurricular. For 15 years Mrs. Croker's life was spent almost entirely in court. She sued her agents, her attorneys, her creditors. She was sued by auctioneers for fees, by State governments for taxes, by her single-minded stepchildren for a share in the vanishing estate. Month ago she filed a petition for bankruptcy. Last fortnight...
...closed but President Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild got them opened after the first day. Like A. F. of L., C. I. O. declared for a Japanese boycott, condemned the National Labor Relations Board. It unanimously resolved that contracts were sacred. It announced that it had spent $1,745,968 in the past 16 months, more than $900,000 on the steel strike alone. But just as C. I. 0. was A. F. of L.'s principal business, so A. F. of L. turned out to be the most important concern of C.I.O...
...prosperous years before Depression the Carnegie Institute spent up to $60,000 on the Carnegie International. This year it spent about $35,000. The Institute's Director Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens was especially proud last week of the work done in Spain by the Institute's nervy emissary, Margaret Palmer, who got many of her contemporary paintings out of Madrid in an army truck provided by the Loyalist Government to take a load of Goyas to Valencia. All 407 paintings were in place by the last week in September, when the four judges, each armed with 15 Dennison...