Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This bill was called up in the House last week under a suspension of the rules. It authorizes the expenditure of $150,000,000 equally divided over a period of six years. In the first place, this is not a large sum as such bills go. In the second place, it is arranged that one third of this amount is to be spent at the Capital, where it will benefit no one's constituency. New buildings are urgently needed at Washington, where several departments are inadequately housed, valuable documents are stored in firetraps and high rents are paid for absolutely...
...Embassy in Mexico City stands on ground half of which the U. S. Government "bought" from Edward L. Doheny for the sum of $1. Across the street from the Embassy, stands the home of Frank Seaver. Last week, the Seavers gave a reception, attended by the city's elect, for Mr. and Mrs. Doheny. According to reports, every one of the U. S. Embassy sent his regrets...
...Churchill said that His Majesty's Government desired only to collect from the Continent a sum sufficient to liquidate the British debt to the U. S. He said that a definite sum must be paid by France "from her own national resources, fixed with due regard to her relative wealth and taxpaying capacity . . . without reference to reparations...
...long it has been the practice of the German Government departments to invest their idle funds. Under the Bauer (Socialist) regime (June, 1919?Mar., 1920), the Ministry of Posts, which always has the largest cash reserves, invested through the firm of Barmat Brothers and other financial agents a large sum. The Government received in return questionable securities...
...Daugherty from the Cabinet, Gaston B. Means, had been on trial for several weeks in the Federal District Court in Manhattan. He and a lawyer as sociate, Colonel Thomas B. Felder, were on trial for conspiracy to obstruct justice. It was charged that they had benefited, to the sum of $65,000, taken from a number of men under indictment for misuse of the mails; by agreeing to prevent prosecution of the case. Instead the indicted men were convicted and made charges against Means and Felder. Ex-Attorney General Daugherty, called as a character witness for Colonel Felder, came into...