Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later in the week Inquisitor Nye's committee announced that it would examine the papers of the late President Harding, particularly those concerning the sale of his Marion Star for the large sum of $380,000. On the floor of the Senate, that same afternoon, campaign funds were on a dozen lashing tongues. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democrat, told of a Republican dinner in Chicago in 1920 where Vice President Coolidge made "a rip snorting speech" before "the big fat fellows from all over the country, who had more money than they knew what to do with." Senator Borah...
...Admiralty's estimate of its budgetary needs was presented to the House of Commons, last week, by rubicund First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman. After tolling out the mighty total sum of ?57,300,000 ($278,478,000), Mr. Bridgeman remarked that this represents a cut of ?700,000 from the appropriations of last year...
Serial numbers on the Liberty Bonds thus used to obtain a cash contribution in Mr. Patten's name, identified them last week as part of the $160,000 given by Sinclair to the G. O. P.-a sum which Treasurer Upham and his furtive colleague, onetime National G. O. P. Chairman Will H. Hays, were at great pains to conceal...
Chairman Butler telegraphed that he had never received any of Sinclair's Liberty bonds from Mr. Hays. At the same time, Senator Borah published a letter that he had just written to Chairman Butler: ". . . The Republican party received large sums . . . from Mr. Sinclair, which the Republican party cannot in honor and decency keep. . . . The whole transaction . . . had in view an ulterior and sinister purpose. . . . I feel that this money should be returned to the source from which it came. We cannot in self-respect or in justice to the voters in the party keep it. . . . I venture the opinion...
...Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), blackface comedian, said to Producer J. J. Shubert over long-distance telephone: "I'd do anything in the world just to help you out-for a certain sum." So it was agreed that Mr. Yoelson would appear in A Night in Spain, musical comedy now running in Chicago, at a salary of $10,000 a week for four weeks...