Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antietam Battlefield, north of Washington, the President spent 40 minutes watching a re-enactment of the bloodiest day of the Civil War. Saving most of his fire for his Constitution Day address in Washington the same evening (see col. 3), he got a cool response to a short speech which contained only one notable reference to the New Deal: "I believe also that the past four years mark the first occasion, certainly since the War Between the States and perhaps during the whole 150 years of our Government, that we are not only acting but also thinking in national terms...
...London last week, Associate Justice Hugo La Fayette Black of the U. S. Supreme Court spent some of the last days of his European holiday shopping for tweeds, browsing about bookstores for a copy of Crete's Aristotle, dining at Simpson's and going to the theatre. To reporters who hounded him for a statement, he calmly announced that he would have none to make "at least until I return to the United States." Meanwhile, in the U. S. the story published last week by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that Hugo Black had once been and still...
More than three months ago a sharp skirmish on Peiping's suburban marble Marco Polo Bridge started the present war in China. By last week Japan had spent or appropriated $737,000,000, had landed 200,000 men in China-almost its entire standing army-and suffered untold thousands of casualties to prosecute that war. The war that was intended merely to nip off the Peiping section and possibly rich "model" Shansi Province, Shantung and Suiyuan, now covered China's entire 2,150 mi. coastline...
...With time to prowl around Shanghai's famed new Municipal Centre on which Chinese have spent $8,000,000 (or 20,000,000 Chinese dollars), correspondents last week found the $225,000 Administration Building gutted as a result of 13 shells efficiently hurled through its green and yellow tiled roof by Japanese warships. Mere smoking debris was the Centre's $90,000 museum and burned was the $1,500,000 Jukong Municipal Wharf completed only a few months...
...Shanghai cable companies, figuring they have lost several hundred thousand dollars' worth of business during the 15 clays their lines have been cut, spent $19,500 on a daring tugboat expedition which laid 26 mi. of cable and restored service last week. Three days later something or somebody cut the cables again and Shanghai dispatches once more went exclusively by radio...