Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey went home to Owosso, Mich, (pop. 14,500), to see his mother, Mrs. Anne Dewey.* He insisted his trip had nothing to do with politics. So he spent an hour talking to Iowa's G. O. P. boss, Harrison Spangler, sat up till midnight with Missouri's G. O. P. boss, Barak Mattingly and promised him to speak in St. Louis in October; he shook hands with 200 leading Illinois Republicans; on a high school athletic field he prayed for world peace. Each day he was photographed in every front-porch-campaign pose known to the prosaic...
...malfeasance in office (one indictment remained last week), he saved Philadelphians $50,000,000 on the capitalization of their transit setup, beat down utility rates, cut the tax rate 5?, was credited with bringing the 1936 Democratic convention to Philadelphia. But since January 1 sick Sam Wilson had spent precisely ten minutes at City Hall, let the city go to pot. Fortnight ago, with his overdue airport only half-finished, sewers left broken and exposed, some suburbs unpoliced and city water too bad for finicky citizens to drink, Mayor Wilson signed the $112,000,000 budget seven and one-half...
...Many precious weeks spent by the battleship Oregon on the 13,000-mile trip around the Horn during the Spanish-American War-proving to the U. S. the naval necessity of a canal...
...chain in ten States. Its Alabama Power Co. announced a project which Wendell Willkie would never have dared to try while the TVA fight was on: a $4,000,000 steam power plant in Mobile. At the same time C. & S. announced that $12,000,000 more would be spent later in plant expansions in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. A day later came another proof that Dave Lilienthal and Wendell Willkie were beginning to work together. TVA and Commonwealth & Southern signed a ten-year contract under which Alabama Power Co. will buy about $100,000 of TVA hydroelectric power...
...Author. Born in Humphreysville (now Seymour), Conn, in 1826, John William De Forest dropped out of school at 13 after his father's death, wrote an authoritative history of Connecticut Indians at 25, spent two years in the Near East and Europe (where he translated Hawthorne into Italian) before he was 30, wrote two travel books and two reasonably successful novels. In 1856 he married Harriet Silliman Shepard and for the next few years divided his time between New Haven and Charleston, S. C. When Sumter was fired on he escaped from Charleston on the last ship going north...