Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Received from committee the report on the supply bill for the Treasury and Post Office Departments carrying an appropriation of $763,000,000-the largest peacetime supply bill ever presented. The sum is divided $127,000,000 for the Treasury, $636,000,000 for the Post Office...
Forty million dollars is a goodly sum of money even in these days when the memory of war-time finance still lingers as an arithmetic nightmare. A man who can afford to give such an amount to education naturally attracts the fickle public eye, and for a moment his every opinion commands a wide attention. So with Mr. James Duke. For the student of American life and thought this event is most fortunate...
GOVERNMENT DEBT AND TAXES. "The costs of our national and local Gov- ernments combined now stand at a sum close to $100 for each inhabitant of the land. A little less than one-third of this is represented by national expenditure ... It is an ominous fact that only the national Government is reducing its debt. Others are increasing theirs at about $1,000,000,000 each year...
Princess April. One small and exceptionally amusing young lady, Dorothy Appleby by name; one prima donna of established repute, Tessa Kosta; one chorus that could dance; two or three tunes designed for repetition; and an exceptionally futile book. This is the sum of Princess April. So leaden a liability is this same book, so halting the hilarity, that the production is of doubtful destiny...
Union Seminary, largest theological workshop in the U. S., famed for recondite scholarship and "heretics," has been seeking an endowment of four millions. Lately, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, noted Unionite, returned from a swing around the country bearing with him a goodly portion of the sum, including the munificence of Benjamin Thaw of Pittsburgh. A fortnight ago, Mrs. Louise Carnegie, widow of historic Andrew, added $100,000 to the total...