Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expense items listed by Mr. Blackmer included $400 for a party for Writers Heywood Broun, Mark Hellinger, Laurence Stallings & others, a $25 treat for Atlanta "social leaders and clubwomen," $75 lavished on the French consul and others at Chicago, an unnamed sum spent on "Mr. & Mrs. Biddle" at Pinehurst, N. C. Host Blackmer also said he had cast a few croutons on the political waters of the nation's capital. "In Washington," he testified, 'T entertained almost every night at my hotel various representatives of the Army and Navy, particularly Captain Joel Boone of the White House [President...
...anonymous donor of a sum to be used for the creation of a fellowship for the development of at least one public servant who is truly entitled to that name should meet with the hearty approval of the College and the country at large...
...terrific deflation of students' incomes, and a similar deflation of the return upon the University's invested endowments. The increased demand for scholarships has been faced with a dwindling supply of funds. Scholarship funds declined from the peak of $196,000 reached in 1930 to $168,000, a sum which was distributed to 547 of the 1,000 eligible applicants...
...paintings in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is one of the greatest of its kind in the world. It was bequeathed three years ago by the late Lizzie P. Bliss on condition the Museum raise an endowment fund of $1,000,000 (TIME, May 25, 1931). This sum was subsequently reduced to $750.000 by Lizzie's brother, Cornelius Newton Bliss (Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee and Metropolitan Opera director). Last week the Museum announced that its endowment fund had reached $600.000, that Brother Cornelius had accepted this as earnest of another $150,000 to be forthcoming. Thus...
President Franklin's interest in the great merger which was to give Britain the world's biggest and fastest liner and a united front on the North Atlantic was a matter of $12,000.000. This was the sum still due I. M. M. for the sale of White Star in 1927, and the notes were secured by all of White Star's outstanding stock. Mr. Franklin said he had not been consulted. The terms of the merger, he thundered, were grossly unfair to White Star stockholders. While he personally was not a stockholder his company...