Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million dollars, which are not provided for. I expect that these loose ends will be covered in a new bill which will be introduced in a short time. Since at least $100,000,000 will be saved from the post office department alone, the total sum of our economies in this direction will be large...
...believed they were actually quenching their alcoholic thirsts; a barrel of the beverage was, and is sold by the glass at a hundred per cent profit. While the tax imposed is high, the profits reaped by retailers and brewers are higher, and the people, willing to pay any sum at first, are bearing the burden...
...rest of his legislative program ahead at top speed last week. While eating a tray luncheon in his office he signed his $500,000,000 Economy Bill. His pen & ink thereby marked an historic transfer of fiscal power from the Congress to the Presidency. Heretofore Congress has appropriated specific sums to be spent as ordered on veterans and Federal employes. Under the new law Congress authorizes a lump sum expenditure, leaves it for the President to spend within certain broad bounds...
...asking it to enact such breath-taking proposals. His demand in a special message for "courageous, frank and prompt action" was predicated upon the necessity for balancing a budget more than $1,000,000,000 out of plumb. His economy reforms were designed to save at least half that sum. The measure giving him dictatorial power over veterans' expenditures and Federal salaries was entitled: "A Bill to Maintain the Credit of the United States...
...swelling its coffers through the soiled rentals of the Cotton Club, occupant of its premises, now insists that Mr. Solomon's organization has "damnified" its temple. The Christ Temple Pentecostal Church gently but firmly suggests that the indemnifying process will cost the Cotton Club just twenty thousand dollars. This sum is calculated to soothe the "outraged confidence" of its communicants, and to bolster up the "lost morale" of the Church...