Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because W. Randolph Burgess of the New York Federal Reserve Bank is wise in the ways of the money market, Undersecretary Mills called him in to help determine just how the Treasury should borrow this huge sum with the least disturbance to public credit. Mr. Burgess brought word that the New York bond market, having recovered from its first Bonus scare, was ripe for a U. S. notation. Mr. Mills agreed; the Treasury would put part of its offering in bonds...
Fair wages are paid, with workers contributing 5% monthly to an investment fund. Salaried officials likewise have a monthly sum deducted, Dr. Voliva fixing the percentage yearly. When convenient, he gives employes his personal, nonnegotiable, eight-year notes...
...annual contributions have ranged from $750 the first year to $7,549 in 1928-29, the peak year. In all, the Library has received from the Friends the sum of $24,777.50. This does not include the unprecedentedly generous gifts toward the purchase of the library of William Augustus White '63. For this purpose, one hundred persons subscribed the sum of $191,965, which enabled the Library to acquire the major portion of the books needed from Mr. White's collection of Elizabethan literature. Most of these donors were already members of the Friends and have continued their friendship...
...purchase of English prose fiction. As a result of this, the collection of English novels of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is rapidly growing, and the students in Professor Greenough's courses in the history of the novel have adequate material to work with. Another considerable sum was devoted to building up the works of Fielding; and further sums were spent on editions of Byron, making the Library's collection of that writer really in the first rank. A few English plays of the seventeenth century have been bought to help round out the White collection. Various single...
...enable the instructor to reduce the number of his tutees without diminishing his income requires a large sum of money. But the objection does not invalidate the suggestion. The University obtained $15,000,000 to establish a physical basis for the tutorial system. It remains now for the authorities to eliminate the inconsistencies...