Word: sums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Others. Then there remains the charge that Senator Lawrence D. Tyson of Tennessee, Democrat, used $1,800,000 in his primary campaign in 1924. Such a sum would be equivalent to $20 for every man and woman who voted for him. Other slush and corruption investigations which have dwindled, were those against Senators Watson and Robinson of Indiana, Senator Hawes of Missouri...
...when Carleton Beals, one-time Principal of the American High School, Mexico City, charged the U.S. with constant graft and aggrandizement in Mexico, ending by claiming that onetime (1909-13) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Henry Lane Wilson received 50,000 pesos a year from Diaz, and demanded a like sum from Madero, "to help support the American Embassy." At this, Mrs. Dawes rose (out of order) from her seat, and in a voice trembling with emotion declared: "I think we have struck the very lowest note of the week listening to charges of bribery and corruption against men not present...
...Dawes Plan lays down two working principles: 1) Germany now knows the maximum annual sum* she is expected to repay; 2) Germany has virtually complete commercial autonomy within the framework of the Plan. The Dawes Plan safeguards the Allies against German default by creating a virtual mortgage on German wealth (especially railways) in favor of the Allies. The Agent General of Reparations, at present Mr. Seymour Parker Gilbert, resides in Berlin as a sort of super-trustee. Under him is a comprehensive system of boards to adjust constantly outcropping problems, such as those of transfer...
...total sum of German reparations has yet to be set; but it was a great step to fix definitely the current annual reparations which had previously been thought of by the Allies as "all we can get" and by Germany as "the least we can get by with...
...friendly priest, a sum of money to say masses, burn candles for the soul of a certain prominent citizen "who will need them, wherever...