Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chamberlain caused to be read in the House of Commons a quiet little Treasury minute. It explained that henceforth His Majesty's Government, when it needs more millions, will simply ask the House to appropriate "tokens" nominally of ?100 ($400)-each token to stand for whatever vast sum is secretly decided by the War Cabinet...
...sending Finland a few millions of dollars ? The forces of the Soviet could hardly be checked by so insignificant a sum...
...divided into three parts. There are 1) the residential suburbs: Hialeah, Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, South Miami (where many a homeowner last week had moved into his garage-apartment, rented his house for the winter season); 2) the city of Miami, lovely in segments but raw-ugly in sum, with its own tolerant government and its flamboyant, perennial "reform" Mayor E. G. Sewell; 3) Miami Beach, with its own City Council, its Mayor John Hale Levi. The city of Miami is a city, much like other booming U. S. towns; Miami Beach is a unique U. S. phenomenon...
...Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, last week. "We are struggling to preserve the freedom of people throughout the world, whether they be great or small peoples, and to preserve their possessions and their very lives. No other war has had aims that are more spiritual, moral, and, in sum, more Christian...
...aint particklar whut youre age or whuther your one uv them thar big handsum broots jest so yawr a blond. All i want is a home and sum hogs ter slop and chickens ter feed. i heerd that that thar school uv larnin reely did put out som purty good gents so i'll guarantee ya Ill do all the house work like cuttin the wood, haulin the water an milkin the knows. We shore would make a good happy pare...