Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started within six months and completed within a year or year and a half. One new wrinkle in this works program was the suggestion that instead of the old loan-grant system by which 45% of the money was a Federal gift and the rest a loan, the total would be a loan but non-interest bearing. The net cost to the Federal Government, the President said, would be about the same...
...Chinese Red Cross, ever since China was invaded, has been thankfully accepting from the American Red Cross sums which now total $370,000. Of this $100,000 was appropriated by the American Red Cross from its general fund before the Roosevelt appeal, and another $100,000 was added from the same source early this month. Private donations prior to the appeal amounted to about $50,000. Chairman Davis keeps hearing from U. S. friends of China that, whereas Japan got $10,000,000 after her earthquake, the American Red Cross in the last three decades has sent only about...
...true that some Roosevelt coattail riders got short rides. But since the total number of Republican votes cast was so small that it was virtually ignored by the public, Chairman Hamilton's remark was characteristically optimistic. The Illinois primary was chiefly significant to Illinois, and since 1933 the time-honored complexities of Illinois politics have had, as their central theme, the struggle for State control between Democratic Governor Henry Horner and Chicago's Democratic Kelly-Nash machine. Last week victories of his two candidates for Senator and county judge made it look as though Governor Horner had finally...
Last week the grand total of Japanese losses at Taierchwang was conservatively estimated by neutral foreigners at between 7,000 and 10,000, but the Chinese Generalissimo's headquarters estimated that the Imperial Japanese Government had now massed half-a-million men for the purpose of attempting this week to wipe out their defeats, smash through to Suchow. Best reconstruction from the battlefield of the Taierchwang fighting was sent by Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele: "0verconfidence and contempt for the Chinese army had much to do with the Japanese defeat. The Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang...
This highly complex, most professional diplomatic deal was closed by signing with quill pens one protocol, eight accords and declarations, three exchanges of notes. Total: about 5,000 words...