Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which La Pa trie did not pay on Dec. 15 to les yanquis. Seizing paper & pencil they divided the 480,000,000-franc default by the population of France, 41,000,000, figured that each owed the U. S. between eleven and twelve francs (about 47?), popped this tidy sum into an envelope and mailed it to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. Mr. Edge wrote letters to the several dozen Frenchmen, thanked them, returned their money. Other Frenchmen wrote denunciatory letters. In Montparnasse a mob knocked out the front teeth of a Dr. Daniel Mahoney of San Francisco...
...election of his successor President Albert Lebrun (TIME, May 16) -thumbing through the hoary pages of the bygone budget, M. Herriot came upon an item of 480,000,000 francs. There it stood in black and white! Nine months ago the Chamber & Senate scrupulously appropriated the whole sum necessary...
...would venture to sum up the results of the conference in two sentences. First, we have clearly delimited the field upon which the future constitution is going to be built. . . . Secondly, we have created an esprit de corps among...
...sum of $12,000,000, spent...
...pieces the Viennese relished. If Sissy visits the U. S., Kreisler will take out tunes he has borrowed from Apple Blossoms, the operetta which he wrote in collaboration with Composer Victor Jacobi 13 years ago. Apple Blossoms never saw Vienna but it made Kreisler a tidy sum in its long Broadway run. Kreisler wrote Sissy frankly hoping that it too would make him money, a fact which would have surprised last week's audience far more than the music did or the sentimental enthusiasm with which Vienna Socialists reacted to the old Habsburg tale...