Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have heretofore testified that I made contributions totaling $237,925.19 in connection with the primary election held in Illinois on April 13, 1926. Of this sum, $172,925.19 was contributed for the purpose of influencing nomination of persons for United States Senator [chiefly Col. Frank L. Smith]. The remainder, $65,000, was contributed to influence the nomination of various persons for various local county offices, and I firmly believe that it was used exclusively for such purposes...
...sum of $172,925.19 was contributed during the period of a few months preceding the primary, and all of it was borrowed by me from the Commonwealth Edison Co. pending reimbursement of the company from my own funds as soon as I could conveniently arrange...
Said the Baltimore Sun (Democratic): "Mr. Coolidge did not merely refuse to sign the measure. He kicked it out of the White House with as strong denunciation of its provisions in sum and in detail as has been heard in or out of Washington during the months of its consideration. . . . That is what the country wanted...
...Rockerbilt & Co. for 20 years, seized his chance to embezzle $10,000 and soon ran it into six figures by playing the stock market as he saw his superiors secretly playing it? What if he then confessed his peculation to the bank president, tendering his check for the stolen sum, plus interest, and showing by his bank book that he was an important depositor? Suppose the banker put away the check as a weapon, and forbore arresting the clerk because obviously he was clever and had inside information on the market operations of high officials. What if the banker...
...experience, previously, had been in the export field. But he had listened to his father discourse on life insurance. He understood its economics and during his second year with Metropolitan he made his knowledge pay. He wrote up policies worth more than $1,000,000 and has exceeded that sum yearly since. Last week Metropolitan bookkeepers told him that during 1926 his policies totaled $34,075,950. He was the company's star salesman, breveted smart son of a smart father. He is, of course, a member of Metropolitan's famed Million Dollar Club, which this year...