Word: treasuryship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name!" An equally impassioned plea was made for the Bishop's codefendant. Her lawyer declared: "This little woman comes up from Virginia charged with this crime. She was the daughter of a Methodist minister and was the support of her widowed mother for many years. . . . She accepted the treasuryship of this committee for which she was paid 75? an hour. She performed those duties as she performed every other duty in life-as a Christian woman and as a citizen of the U. S.- faithfully and honestly." Then the Government brought on its witnesses. Mr. Jameson testified that...
...praiser of times past, McConaughy thinks U. S. reverence for the Founding Fathers much out of place, dubs them the "Funding Fathers." When Congress decided, during Alexander Hamilton's treasuryship, to redeem at par value the nearly worthless certificates with which the Revolutionary Army had been paid, fortunes were made by many a businessman and politician who got to backwoods scrip-owners before the news did. Twenty-nine of the 64 members of the House of Representatives got a share of the pickings. Few great names (Washington's is an exception) escape McConaughy's scorn. Few schoolboys...
When Premier Scullin returned to Australia he found Boss Theodore fairly fuming at Treasurer Lyons' presumptuous independence. He, Mr. Theodore, felt that the smell of scandal had now been aired out sufficiently for him to resume the Treasuryship. While lurid epithets were hurled by Australia's lively Press, Mr. Theodore was reappointed Treasurer- this being the decisive mistake of Mr. Scullin's career...