Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brother Richard earned the right to be called "most active" last week when he donated an unlimited sum, which his fellow parishioners estimated would amount perhaps to $3,000,000, for the purpose of razing the present East Liberty Church and building a fifth, vastly more impressive fane. Richard B. Mellon let it be known that he wished the projected church to have a longer life than its predecessors; he intended that it should be equipped with recreation rooms, athletic plants, cinema apparatus, every churchgoers' convenience which has ever been devised or thought of, so that even after...
...Furthermore," he continued, "I was entirely surprised to learn that we had set the figure $5,6000 as our aim. We have no definite sum in mind, and it is not likely that we shall until we see what the response to our appeal...
...money bills which seem to answer. The first appropriates 2,500,000 francs for a tomb to Marshal Foch. The second, while recalling that "Clémenceau was the Organizer of Victory and the Savior of France," appropriates for a statue to him 100,000 francs?exactly 1/25 of the sum to be spent on Foch...
...hours of violent political horseplay followed. The sum of Mr. Raskob's testimony: he had contributed $66,000 to the Wet association; he was ignorant of its detailed operations and expenditures; he had never lobbied; he had carefully kept separate his personal position on Prohibition and the position of his party...
...price paid United Diamonds that the company was ruined. Included among the accusations was a charge of fraud. Settlement of the suit announced last month from the King's Bench awarded United Diamonds ?325,000 plus ?25,000 cost. Although the fraud charge was withdrawn, awarding of the sum to United Diamonds was tantamount to admitting that fraud did exist. It could not cheer Solomon Joel to believe that the British Government harbored such a suspicion and was furthermore quite prepared to act upon...