Word: totality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis added that President Coolidge and the Budget Bureau were responsible for the Army's meagre diet. Hearing these words and many others, the House Military Affairs Committee set about to expand the War Department appropriation bill. It increased the daily food ration five cents per day (a total recommendation of $2,167,187); it provided for an enlisted strength of 118,750 instead of the 115,000 proposed in the budget; it made no allowances for the building of new barracks. With such additions, the 1366,000,000 bill went to the House to be debated. Skeptics wondered...
Recapitulation--Senators, 7: Representatives, 19; total...
Gifts from more than 2,000 contributors to the Harvard Law School's $5,000,000 endowment fund now total $1,000,000, it has been announced by W. M. Powell '96, national chairman of the fund. These gifts are almost entirely from the alumni, although some have come from business men and others interested in the School...
...June 23, 1927, the finals of the third National Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest on the Constitution will be in Los Angeles, California, when a total of $5000 in cash prizes will be awarded to seven place-winners. The prizes ranging from $1500 for first place to $350 for seventh place...
...nature, and intend to show you that I deeply resent your discourtesy. Why, I wouldn't think of going now! Not if you sent every darned instructor in the institution to me in person. I won't go near the place, and I hope your old party is a total failure, and everybody is sorry they went and nobody has a good time! Now I've said my say, and I don't care how much you try to plead with met I'm going to stay at home while you are holding forth, and am going to cover...