Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gratifyingly folksy and approachable, that the heart of the farmers warmed to him immediately. At one point "Benson" wrote to the investors asking them for $2,000-supposedly to be used as a political bribe. "Kids," his letter began, "this [man] says he will lay off for the sum of $2,000, so I know it is lots of guts to ask you, but. . ." The money was raised. At another point "Benson" asked a 53-year-old Canton plumber to get his blood tested. "Grandmother is sick," said Benson over the telephone, "and William and I have given our blood...
...illustrate, his claim, the student spun the tale of a girl who suddenly burst in upon a shaving law man. Aware of the penalties which faced the student if he were caught violating the parietal rules, she threatened to scream unless the lawyer came through, with a given sum of money...
...Lindsay Warren found glaring errors in one out of every seven of the settlements he examined -"and never an error in favor of the Government." At the time, everyone thought that haste, even though it meant waste, was better than delay which might have cost the nation a bigger sum in lost civilian production, long lines of unemployed and slow reconversion of plants to peace...
...Barkley they say, without giving any indication that they have conducted their own poll, that no one doubts "his complete capability to take over the biggest job in the world on a moment's notice and fill it creditably." And of Dean Acheson the new Merry-Go-Rounders sum up: "the greatest Secretary of State since Henry L. Stimson...
While most of the sum for scholarships came for the Law School's own money, there were also awards from the general scholarship funds of the University. Each school of the University recommends candidates to the Provost's Office for these grants...