Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take men off the relief rolls and give them jobs in private enterprise. Subsequently I was told by many employers that they were not satisfied with the information available concerning the skill and experience of the workers on the relief rolls. On Aug. 25 I allocated a relatively small sum* to the Employment Service for the purpose of getting better and more recent information...
...that Mr. Ickes cannot remember that President Roosevelt was nominated for the Presidency at Chicago in 1932 with the direct help of the Hearst delegates from Hearst's own State of California. . . . The sum of the matter would seem to be that Mr. Hearst is one of our best pickers of Presidential winners and one of the least assertive controllers of Presidents...
...registration each year, the Council collects pledges from all undergraduates to defray these expenses. All members of the Class of 1940 will be asked to contribute as large a sum as possible. Remember that a great part of this money will be used for Freshman activities...
Longoria sold his process to Yoder Co. of Cleveland for an unannounced sum. Then Bridgeport (Conn.) Brass Co. raised indignant howls, claimed that the inventor had verbally contracted to sell the process to it for $600,000. In Cleveland last week Bridgeport Brass Co. was suing in Federal court to prevent the deal with Yoder Co. from bearing fruit...
Left to the generosity of his employer was the sum which Joseph Patrick Kennedy was to receive for writing a report on Paramount Pictures (TIME, June 29). Last week it was learned that the sum would be $50,000, only one-third of the fee the onetime Securities & Exchange Commission chairman received for devising a recapitalization plan for Radio Corp. of America (TIME, Feb. 10). From the mephitic mystery that cloaked Mr. Kennedy's report ever since he handed it in early in June it looked as if Paramount had certainly got its money's worth...