Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drive was started several days age under the leadership of David Rockefeller '36 and Robert W. Edwards '33. By yesterday morning a sum of $155 had been collected, of which $100 was the gift of the Student Council...
...that these things could have been said, with equal effectiveness, without damaging reference being made to the Herald-Post. The statement in connection with the Herald-Post is untrue. There has never been a 5-year period in the history of this newspaper when operating losses even approximated the sum...
...gestures to those who have grown alarmed by mounting Government deficits and recalled his 1932 promise to balance the budget. First was a veto which he imposed on a bill for $50,000,000 for seed & crop loans to farmers. Calling attention to the fact that the sum was not provided for in his budget, he declared that any money used for that purpose should properly come out of relief funds. Congressional pain at the veto was considerably alleviated when a few days later he allocated $30,000,000 from relief funds for crop loans. Further to avoid charges...
...Florida ship canal is a perfect example of this iniquitous scheme. By an expenditure of $5,000,000 for scratching the surface of the State, the Administration has practically committed the government to the expenditure of $200,000,000--the sum necessary to complete the canal. This means that the executive can on his own authority make any appropriations whatsoever, if he can get his hands on a small retaining fee. Jealous of his new money authority, he seems inclined to resent having to share it with Congress. It is hard to interpret otherwise his declaration that seed-bill loans...
...appeared mainly in "claiming" races- minor events for mediocre horses in which each entry is for sale at a specified price, for which he can be claimed by anyone who wants him. In these his efforts had been so undistinguished that Mr. Baroni got him for the modest sum of $3,500. He took the horse to California with the rest of his string. Top Row promptly began to win races. A small, unimpressive, 4-year-old bay colt, he returned to the East last summer to run against horses far out of the claiming class. Partly because...