Word: sums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as it is unsigned, and he has the right to change or even destroy it. The Vollard heirs were ordered to return the 807 Rouaults to him in a month, or pay him 100,000 francs (now $840) apiece. The court ordered Rouault to pay the heirs a sum yet to be determined to wipe off Vollard's bill. Rouault expects to "finish up" only about 30 of the paintings. Among other things, Rouault has gone increasingly religious in his work, has little interest in his earlier daubery...
...sum total, concludes Author Bullitt, would be a world organization named the "Defense League of Democratic States." But in its infancy, the power of such a League would rest primarily on two U.S. means of forceful persuasion - a mammoth air force and a soaring stockpile of atomic bombs...
While he waited for October and the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether he would have to face death twice, stolid, stuttering Willie Francis gave the world the sum of his experience. It was "plumb mizzuble...
Hermann Göring was all set for a go at dollar diplomacy in 1940, said Assistant Attorney General O. John Rogge. The fat Nazi had had a huge sum salted away in the Washington embassy for a political campaign against Franklin D. Roosevelt's reelection, but "the opportunity never presented itself...
...Times No. In Ohro, Japan, five thieves, offered 2,000 yen by Mrs. Ko Nagashima, snorted, "We couldn't take a paltry sum like that," made her go next door and borrow 10,000 more...