Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United Artists for work on King of the Mountains budgeted at $1,100,000; to Richard Barthelmess, a raise from $5,500 to $8,500 a week; to Fannie Brice, $7,500 a week for three weeks to appear in Publix theatres; to King Alfonso (Spain), an unnamed sum for talking into Fox Movietone sound-camera; to one Jack Felstein, called Jack Gordon, not more than three years for grabbing pocketbooks from matrons at cinematinees in Manhattan...
Sweet Chocolate is candy, not food. Thus ruled Federal Judge W. H. Kirkpatrick in Philadelphia, last week. Result: the U. S. government will not have to return $4,495,325.66 principal, $1,500,000 interest, to Hershey and other chocolate companies. This sum was paid in candy taxes to the U. S. under acts now repealed...
...greatest amount spent for blue between 1923 and 1928, the included in the survey, was in when $2164.29 was paid out. sum and the sum denoting the for blue books over a span of years, was expended for the examination books used only by undergraduate. A few of the blue books were for clerical work in the dean's though the greatest majority consumed in the hour examinations, mid-years, finals, and General Examinations. If all the pages of these blue-books could be fitted into a large area this square would approximate a square mile. The lines of writing...
Other clients, who desired to make ambitious and tangible presents, were dissuaded by the architects who suggested a more practical scheme. In pursuance of this scheme Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, poet and sister to the late Theodore Roosevelt, presented "a sum of money [contributed by the guests at the party] to the American Institute of Architects to establish a fund to enable French students of architecture to visit the United States to study the work done here, which will help to repay in a small way the generosity of the French Government to the many American students who have received...
...final appeal for assistance in defeating the Roman Catholic Clerical Party* and to burst up the solid south, as a solemn rebuke to Rome's meddling in our political affairs, and to show the world that America stands firmly against RUM AND ROMANISM, I RUSH TO YOU the sum of $...., with my earnest prayer...