Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge ignored Passenger Levine in cabling congratulations to Pilot Chamberlin. Said The Day (Jewish daily published in Manhattan) : "At last we, too, are convinced of the great economy of our President. He is so parsimonious, he watches so closely the cash register of Uncle Sam that even the great sum of about 66c (the cost of cabling three words to Germany) is of importance...
Donations for the Harvard War Memorial Chapel up to June 13 have reached the sum of $622,502.92. This amount was made up from 1,496 subscriptions from members of the various classes, going back as early as 1860 from a member of which class a subscription of $200 has been received...
Rumbling is a major sport, if there ever was one. We would, for example, and probably should, before the evening was over, give a considerable sum to go out and rumble for a little while now. It has manifold attributes among which is overemphasis, and its only drawback, so far as we can see, is the possibility of a long cool walk to Cambridge. But tonight, instead of rumbling along, starting quiet towns, we are staying in and rumbling typewriter keys. And, as some one has said, it isn't the heat, it's the humility...
Call Boy brought a sum on the fat side cf a quarter-million dollars to his owner, Frank Curzon, London theatrical manager, onetime actor. Another onetime roving actor, William Kilpatrick, 40, who had settled down as a dentist's assistant in Africa, held Call Boy's ticket in the Calcutta sweepstakes. It paid $814,800.* Cautious Mr. Kilpatiick had sold half of his ticket to a syndicate for $50,000, so his personal profit was only $457,400. William Jones, 60, retired clerk living peacefully at Felixtowe, won the Stock Exchange sweepstakes of $363,750 after selling three...
...bequest was made conditional upon the raising of an additional sum of $2,500,000 by citizens of Cincinnati-something which rich Cincinnatians hastened to pledge themselves to do last week. The Taft house, a fine old colonial mansion on Pike Street, will continue to house the newly bequeathed Taft collection, will be opened to the public after the death of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft. Their $1,000,000 bequest will be used to support the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...