Word: surpluses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resign the Prime Ministry. As soon as ever he could Le Lion called for documents, ink and paper, set about completing the reports in his clear, precise, almost microscopic hand. So many huge baskets and bouquets arrived that when the invalid's room was full Mme. Poincare ordered the surplus sent, not without vanity, to deck the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...country seems to be in very good shape. I was delighted to see the large surplus that remained in the Treasury . . . which was substantially the last fiscal year of my administration...
...against the size of the Army (118,750 men, 12,000 officers) but against its overhead was the President's complaint leveled. Army officers were ready with explanations: the U. S. soldier is better paid, better fed, better housed, better equipped than the soldier of any other nation. Surplus war supplies are running low, necessitating fresh purchases. Continuing programs for aviation and housing add to Army cost...
Meharry College goes back to a wandering Irishman who raised five sons as Methodists. Prosperous for their time (post-Civil War period), they gave their joint surplus of $30,000 to the Methodist Episcopal Church for a Christian college to train colored youths in medicine. The church founded the college at Nashville. First head and instructor was Dr. George W. Hubbard, onetime Union Army private who had hastily studied medicine. His helper was Dr. W. G. Snead, onetime Confederate Army surgeon. Present president of Irish-founded Meharry is Dr. John J. Mullowney, white...
...power & potency of the Big Bank, Mr. Howell realized also that its very bigness left room for a smaller bank operating on more of a personal contact basis. So, after long consideration, and with the assistance of the tycoons mentioned above, he got together $7,000,000 for a surplus and sold $7,000,000 capital stock and formed Commercial National. It was designed to cater to persons who still regarded $1,000,000 as a considerable sum and to corporations not yet large enough to be viewed with alarm by the Federal Trade Commission...