Word: summing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, Georgia's Harris declared: "Ninety per cent of the post-office appointments, I believe, are sold in my state." Said Georgia's George, "The sum of the exactions made would be fairly staggering." "Ridiculous," commented Postmaster General Harry Stewart New. Then two Florida postmasters-Alvin L. Durrance of Frostproof and Leslie D. Roberts of Avon Park-talked of paying "levy" for their posts. Postmaster General New discharged them forthwith...
...Sinclair, he took Fall's son-in-law, Mahlon T. Everhart, aboard his private car in the Washington railroad yards one night and handed over $198,000 in Liberty Bonds, supplementing this sum with $35,000 at his Manhattan office some days later. He was supposed to be buying a one-third interest in a run-down ranch of Fall's at Tres Rios (Three Rivers), N. Mex. They were going to turn the ranch into a country-club. But no club eventuated. Fall used the money to pay off debts and improve the property...
...total investment made thus far in Italian hydro-electric companies is roughly equivalent to half a billion dollars, a sum which would have to be doubled to attain "utilization of all Italy's hydro-electric resources...
Senator Borah with his characteristic "set the world on fire" spirit has undertaken more than he can finish. His great campaign to redeem the fair name of the Republican Party has netted a mere twentieth of the sum necessary to repay Mr. Sinclair for his donation to the "Keep Cool with Coolidge" camgaign...
Superficially the repaying of the sum to Sinclair could do no lasting good. The money actually was not rightfully his in the first place. Then such a repayment would not effectively wash the stain from the Republican robe of state. Now, with the suggestion that Mr. Borah donate the sum already gathered to the needy miners of Pennsylvania, the original purpose of the scheme has come to naught. The secondary result which the "Nation" hints at still remains nevertheless. Mr. Borah, though the possibility of his ever attaining to the Presidency through such a stroke is most improbable...