Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presented with a bill creating a commission and authorizing the appropriation of $5,000,000 for U. S. participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, Franklin Roosevelt imposed the first veto of his second term.* His reasons: the sum was too large and the proposed commission (three Cabinet members, seven Congressmen) would be given complete authority for the expenditure of public funds, "an unconstitutional invasion of the province of the Executive." Congressmen sniggered publicly at both reasons...
...expected estate taxes, as the U. S. claims he did, but merely to escape feared Wartime British capital confiscations, the present Viscount Astor and Major John Jacob Astor, heirs, may recover $10,825,721 in estate taxes collected by the U. S. Government in 1922, plus interest raising the sum to over...
...Diego's Senator Ed Fletcher was the butt of a legislative joke last week in Sacramento. To the Senate reading clerk went a bill which Senator Fletcher's colleagues had drawn up in the familiar Fletcher style. Droned the clerk in his most serious monotone: "The sum of $6,635,000.03 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated moneys of the general fund of this State for the purpose of dredging Pee-Wee River in the county of San Diego, which river flows 2¼ inches of water during three days of each year, if and when it rains...
...drawn a large part of its present funds from gold exported by the Government of Spain. The Spanish Republicans removed from Madrid gold of an estimated value of $400,000,000. To insure safety against claims by General Francisco Franco's Insurgents, much of that great sum was hidden in private accounts. Now it appears that partisans of the 'Free International' took advantage of that arrangement cleverly to utilize large amounts to finance activities having nothing in common with Spanish interests and contrary to the interests of Moscow...
...manufacturer who wants to accomplish anything within this frame gives a sum of money to the Mellon Institute. This finances what, in euphemistic imitation of university custom, is called a "fellowship." Director Edward Ray Weidlein of the Institute then hires one or more expert "fellows," tells them to get to work with any of the equipment in the $6,000,000 aluminum-trimmed establishment which Andrew Mellon and his late brother Richard provided. All the worker is bound to do is to give Mr. Weidlein a weekly report of progress. If a Mellon "research" ends profitably, the worker...