Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When war was declared, I enlisted, served with the ist Battalion Royal Highlanders (The Black Watch) till April 1919, [was] decorated with corporal's stripes and three medals. . . . Of the two years and a half which intervened before I emigrated to America I spent two years working and the half-year seeking work...
...America. Now firmly in control of C. I. O's Vice Chairmen Hillman and Philip Murray, impoverished U. A. W. last fortnight borrowed $50,000 from Mr. Lewis' United Miners. Last week it developed at the convention that U. A. W.'s sorely divided officers had spent some of the money for Elgin watches to give Messrs. Lewis, Hillman. Murray and C. I. O. Headquarters Director John Brophy as "symbols of unity.'' U. A. W. President Homer Martin, who heartily dislikes all four, had to avow the utmost esteem for them (and they...
...INVOLVED IN A EUROPEAN WAR THIS YEAR, OR NEXT YEAR EITHER. Readers were not told that dark paint had been daubed over the gleaming black glass walls inside the courtyard of the Express building, that its principal editors had been fitted with asbestos coveralls, that it had spent $1,080 for sandbag protection and was drilling its staff for a quick dash to a gasproof cellar 60 ft. below the street...
During Christmas vacation the team will train at Saint Sauveur, Quebec, and after midyears at Woodstock, Vermont. Spring vacation will be spent at Tuckerman's ravine, where the Mountaineering Club has a cabin. But beginning on December 1, weekly training periods consisting of cross-country work and exercises will be held on Soldiers Field...
Chairman and president respectively of the world's greatest retail distribution organization, the Brothers Hartford have each spent more than 50 years in the grocery business and can justly claim to know more about it than anybody else. But since they had never before been noted for knowledge of public relations, U. S. Business was dumfounded when the two crusty capitalists not only laid their cards on the table with effective dignity but set something of a precedent by openly announcing that, since they knew nothing much about public relations, they had hired someone who did-Publicist Carl Byoir...