Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a "taxpayer's filibuster" by Maryland's Tydings who demanded a 25% cut in all appropriations, as promised in the Democratic platform. Democratic leaders induced him to drop his fight on the formal promise that "appropriations shall be reduced at the earliest practicable time to a sum equal to estimated revenues...
...Marley, stepping off the Berengaria in Manhattan last week. Explaining himself to bewildered ship newshawks, Lord Marley recalled that Britain's gold was not sent strictly as a payment under the old War Debt agreement but carried a British reservation declaring it to be part of any sum which His Majesty's Government may pay under a new agreement to settle War Debts finally...
...seems that Dr. Joao Frederico Normano, visiting lecturer on economics for two years and an associate director of the Harvard Bureau of Economic Research in Latin America, is none other than Isaac Lewin, enterprising Berlin banker who in 1928 cleaned up a tidy sum by the simple expedient of forging bills of exchange and selling them to foreign banks at a discount...
...been drastically curtailed, a shrinkage which in turn is affecting the work of the Council, and the drawing up of the annual budget. Figures in the possession of Hamilton Young '33, treasurer, indicate that the amount of pledges paid in to date totals only $5461, in comparison with a sum of $6723 that had been paid in last year at this time. The amount of pledges outstanding totals $3200 at the present time...
...Wilmington last week, Lawyer Alfred Holman, father of Libby Holman Reynolds, issued a statement which said: '"Mrs. Reynolds has offered to relinquish her child's right to the inheritance as far as she is legally able and her own share as a widow save a comparatively modest sum in each case . . . hoping the remainder may be devoted to public uses through an endowment established in her late husband's and his father's memory...