Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Franklin Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls, was elected to the United States Senate in 1889. He remained there until 1902 when Mark Hanna "raised a vast sum of money to corrupt the voters of South Dakota...
...Mark Hanna. "Mr. Hanna was furious at what I had said about him and he determined that he would have revenge! My term in the Senate would expire in 1901, and Mark Hanna made up his mind to prevent my reelection. Mr. Hanna raised a vast sum of money to corrupt the voters of South Dakota. ... I was very badly beaten in the election...
Grave Gatti Rules the Proud and Profitable Metropolitan Manhattan Bulk. The close of the opera season in Manhattan brought the usual many long articles of sum mary and commentary from the critics, and might have inspired the philosopher with a few reflections. Perhaps the most striking feature to be noted in a review of the 1922-23 Metropolitan season is the large number of performances and of operas performed. In 23 weeks Mr. Gatti gave 169 performances of 40 different operas. When you con sider the amount of preparation and rehearsal that even a moderately spectacular opera needs, these...
...York Academy of Medicine, to which philanthropic foundations recently gave approximately $2,000,000 for building and endowing a new structure, has raised an additional sum of $250,000, largely from its own membership, for the purchase of a site. The Academy carries on a progressive program of medical and public health activities...
...expenses of attending the conference, including board and room, railroad fare, and registration fee will be about $45. For men who can not afford to pay the entire sum, part of the expense may be met in other ways, information concerning which may be obtained from the Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House, where also application blanks may be secured...