Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bachelor, mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's Broadway Presbyterian Church to preach on "Christ and Him Crucified." He was well aware that this and subsequent sermons would be worth exactly $77,296 to his new church, which had called him from Forest Park Presbyterian in Baltimore. That sum was bequeathed to Broadway Church by its longtime Fundamentalist pastor, Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan, who died last year, aged 74, worth $1,086,576 which he had largely acquired by marrying into R. G. Dun & Co. (now Dun & Bradstreet). Dr. Buchanan appointed three devout Presbyterians as watchdogs to see that...
...part of its output goes into tin cans and automobiles-both steady customers, good years & bad. And it will get more than its share of future prosperity. But U. S. Steel, whose presidency Ernest Tener Weir reportedly refused, can make much more money in a single year than the sum of National Steel's assets...
...piddling political job is the office of New York State Superintendent of Insurance. Under his thumb are 800 insurance companies with $22,000,000,000 of assets, which is 80% of all U. S. insurance assets and a sum equal to the national debt when President Roosevelt entered the White House. Nor is the job a mere matter of making the companies toe the strict line of New York State's insurance laws-as Superintendent George Slingerland Van Schaick (pronounced Skoik) found out. For also under his supervision were the big mortgage companies that cracked up after...
During the past year, it has been necessary for members of the Houses to buy the special privilege or use the Linden Street courts. It is expected that the new arrangement will save a considerable sum to the regular purchasers of both the general ticket and the House card, but that more students will buy the general ticket and so compensate the Athletic Association...
...assessment of each student to the sum of seven dollars would more than cover the deficit in these sports and would eliminate the necessity for any changes in athletic policy other than the proposed endowment fund. Under such a plan the H.A.A. could retain its present staff of coaches and students could receive instruction, equipment, and coaching which are worthy of Harvard College...