Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intention to reflect upon the President of the United States or the administrator of this Relief fund, either national or State. What the court intended to say was that in the distribution of billions of dollars, certain definite regulations should be provided which would govern those who dispense that sum...
From Roman Catholic Archbishop Maximiliano Crespo of Popayan, Colombia, a Chicago gem syndicate bought for an unrevealed sum the foot-high emerald crown of Our Lady of the Andes, containing 453 jewels seized by Pizarro in the 16th Century from the collection of Atahuallpa, last of the Incas. Exhibited in Manhattan, the crown was appraised at $4,500,000 by its new owners, who have been dickering for it since 1914 when Pope Pius X gave permission for the sale. Colombia will use the proceeds to build a Catholic hospital and orphan asylum at Popayan...
...show is what Dallas advertises, but of that sum $12,000,000 is credited to exhibitors (largest: Ford $2,250,000; General Motors $950,000; Chrysler $500,000) and $5,000,000 to concessionaires. Actual amount put into the Fair by the management is somewhat less than $8,000,000, including Federal, state and city contributions. Head of the Exposition corporation is a hardfisted, onetime country banker, Robert L. Thornton. General manager of the Exposition is a onetime Dallas real estate man, William A. Webb. To start with they had the old State Fair grounds plus some 28 acres...
...Meantime the London Dally Herald had confidently announced that Italian funds for Arab rioters were coming into Palestine through French Syria. Bedouins were promised $15 a day, plus food and loot, for attacks on Palestine Jews. The last payment of which the paper professed knowledge was a lump sum of $25,000. To whom it went the paper did not say, but many British fingers pointed privately to fuzzy-chinned Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Supreme Council. A sincere Arab patriot, fuzzy Haj Amin has no particular love for Italy but would...
...Pitcairn's Island. For movie rights to Mutiny and Pitcairn's Island they received a total of . They had gone to Tahiti to escape a dollar civilization, but they wanted $60,000 for , their last book, and got it. It costs only vell to live in Tahiti, this sum being the price of a fishing license but their movies made so much money for Hollywood that they had to keep from being exploited. They live on opposite sides of Papecte, meet once a week to discuss their writing and great wealth...