Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler spent scarcely three hours in his newest territory, but he had time to deliver a speech in which he said: "What we can expect from the other world we know. We do not have the intention to inflict suffering on this other world; however, the sufferings that it inflicted on us we had to make good again and I believe that in essentials we have already arrived at the conclusion of this unique restitution...
Many an M. P., although amazed that an avowed isolationist should say so much, wondered: How could he possibly have spent 45 minutes looking for the missing page? Surely there were copies...
...answer, which the M. P.s were not told: Assailed by doubts about his speech, Mr. King spent the 45 minutes telephoning London, reading the Foreign Office the whole text, asking whether the promise of aid to Britain if attacked was strong enough. Told that it was, he scurried back and read it to the House...
Many a U. S. citizen speculated how his vast bequest might be spent. Charles Hayden stipulated that it be used to promote the "wellbeing, uplifting and development of boys and young men." To Josiah Hayden (whose own needs were well cared for by a $2,000,000 trust fund from his brother), $50,000,000 meant a chance to wave a golden wand, play fairy godfather...
Working by instinct rather than the ponderous methods of other foundations, Mr. Hayden by last week had given money to 130 institutions, hundreds of scholarships in various schools and colleges, had spent $2,500,000 and enjoyed every dollar of it. Among recipients of Hayden money were: Boston University, Boys' Club of New York, Catholic Youth Organization, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, M. I. T. (Charles Hayden's alma mater), Columbia, Stevens Institute, Fordham, New York University. No favorer of races or creeds, Mr. Hayden gave $25 to the Harlem Eye and Ear Hospital...