Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan involves the sum of approximately three thousand dollars, to be paid to an official "father-confessor" to anyone who finds himself so beset by problems of any and all kinds, that he is beginning to see very little future in continuing to fight the good fight. This man might have an official position, but his work would naturally be confidential. The ideal man for the job would be one who knew the ins and outs of college life from personal experience; who would give sane advice on anything from religious problems to whether taking a girl to the Yale...
...bank reserves. Last summer when the figure for excess reserves was around $3,000,000,000, Chairman Eccles boosted reserve requirements 50%, a move which reduced the total to $1,800,000,000. Since then some $500,000,000 worth of gold has flowed into the U. S., a sum which will show up as excess reserves after the year end. Before the winter is over reserve requirements will probably be upped a second time. The sterilization plan was designed to keep the total of excess reserves, which represent perhaps ten times as much in potential bank credit, within reach...
...speak with desperate men, spoke-nay, he conversed. This conversation, like that of Mr. Baldwin and King Edward, was not so much about the tremendous issues at stake as about money. Of course Young Chang did not threaten to kill Dictator Chiang unless he was paid a given sum. That would have been nonsense. The position of each of these two Chinese was of such eminence and power that a few million dollars more or less was not to them what it is to the Duke of Windsor. By "money" they understood the unstinted millions which a Hitler or Stalin...
...President Henry Noble MacCracken for advice. Rich and generous Mr. Lawrence wanted to found a college for women but was not sure how to go about it. He was prepared to give the college his big gabled house Westlands in suburban Bronxville, N. Y., twelve acres of land, the sum of $1,250,000 and his wife's name, Sarah Bates Lawrence. Would Vassar take the fledgling college under her wing? Magnanimous Dr. MacCracken promised that Vassar would...
...Student Council also voted to give a sum of $250 to the Red Cross in accordance with its annual custom. This gift is in lieu of a direct appeal to undergraduates for contributions...