Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawyer was a smart young Kansan named Harold McGugin. The Secretary of the Interior, Albert Bacon Fall, obligingly agreed to let Jackson Barnett give half a million dollars in Liberty Bonds to the Baptist Home Mission Society and another half million to Mrs. Barnett. Of the latter sum $135,000 was alleged to have gone to Lawyer McGugin...
...which it was trusteed, the half million dollars which Jackson Barnett gave the Baptist Home missions. It is suing Washington's Riggs National Bank to recover $200,000 trusteed there for Mrs. Barnett out of the "donation" made to her. It is also suing Lawyer McGugin for the sum he received...
...calls to Singapore, Shanghai, Australia. Soon he was faced with the choice of liquidating his affairs and retiring on a pittance, or selling stock to the public on the chance of a comeback. For days he debated with himself before choosing honest poverty. But first he set aside a sum-"millions"'-for taxes. This he entrusted to an old employe named Zebediah Z. Hare who promptly skipped with the money and left poor, big-hearted old Daddy Warbucks in a terrible predicament...
...possibility of irregularities in the original contracts awarded by ex-Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin to stage-coach drivers and dispatch riders in 1776. . . . 'There is almost positive evidence.' Mr. Farley, said, 'that at a somewhat later date the Wells-Fargo Co. paid the Pony Express the sum of $7.38 in cash, and a keg of Jamaica rum, to refrain from bidding on the Government contract to carry mail from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth.' " BUSINESS HAS MINUS TROUBLE Babson Sees Industry Going Forward- Declares It Is Merely Non-Plussed I. B. M. ADDS TO LINE "International...
...Textbook Loan Library, which lends textbooks to needy students for a nominal sum, will be directed by G. Hinckley Porter '35. The theory behind this drive is that people will be so glad to get rid of their books immediately after taking their examinations that they will gladly present them to the Library representative at the examination place. Books are greatly needed to replenish the waning supply now available at Phillips Brooks, House, since the demand for them has been increasing annually...