Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stop payment of salaries to the Superintendent of Schools in Washington, and the head of the Biology and Chemistry Departments of Washington high schools. He based his action on a rider to the District of Columbia appropriation act for this year which provides : ". . . that no part of this sum shall be available for the payment of the salary of any superintendent, assistant superintendent, director of intermediate instruction or supervising principal who permits the teaching of partisan politics, disrespect of the Holy Bible or that ours is an inferior form of government...
Evans may well have marked this Carter wistfully, a lad whose 19 sum- mers nearly matched Evans' age (18) when he won his first Western Amateur title in 1909. And Mrs. Carter, trudging faithfully in the galleries, may well have felt her maternal bosom rapturously expand. Her slight son, unruffled by high winds, undismayed by sodden turf, continued ticking off pars, eliminated Rolfe, then Fred Lamprecht (intercollegiate champion). In the final, the Cummings-conqucring Martin had Carter in hand for 18 holes, no more. Three down as he munched his lunch, Carter recovered with a rush, won the title...
Reduction of the Debt. The public debt at the close of the year was $20,516,193,887, showing a reduction of nearly $735,000,000. This reduction of the debt was brought about in three ways: 1) By using the sum set aside by Congress ($466,000,000) for debt retirement; 2) by using the entire surplus of $250,000,000;* 3) by taking $18,000,000 out of the Government's cash ("General Fund balance...
...Fixation of the total floating debt of the Treasury at the sum reached on closure subscription to the above loan...
During the first year, Germany was required to pay $250,000,000 to the Allies. Of this sum about $160,000,000 was used from a loan of $200,000,000 raised by international subscription. Of the remaining $90,000,000, half was paid in February; the second half is due on Sept. 1 next. But, under the Plan, Mr. Gilbert has received to date $155,000,000, or 50% more than was necessary...