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...item in the Senate bill which President Hoover did not recommend: $60,000 more for upkeep of the Senate Office Building. Prime pleader for that sum was New Hampshire's Senator George Higgins Moses who. as chairman of the Rules Committee, is the building's chief custodian. His explanation: "The building was infested with cockroaches until we found the source of it, down below, and closed it up. They became so lively that some of them were holding debates with the office force and making life unpleasant for Senators. I had to hire extra scrubwomen. . . . Remember, every Senator...
Every two years President-elect Chase will receive from the State Legislature ever $12,000,000 which he must spend wisely on the upkeep of 14 schools and departments, in addition to whatever appropriations he will be able to coax from purse-wary politicians to finance further pedagogical projects. There will be a faculty of some 1,400 teachers and research ers' to bully, cajole, flatter. Greatest trust of all will be a student body, 14,000 strong, which lives in 124 fraternity and dormitory houses, goes to watch "Big Ten" football games in a $2,000,000 cement basin...
...during th past year, explained that this deficit, was caused by the enormous increase in the Museum's administrative expenses, asked for larger endowment funds in order that funds intended for purchasing works of art might not have to be diverted to help pay the Museum's upkeep...
...Hunt & Racing Foundation. They plan to raise $3,000,000. Memberships are $10,000 each. In Sumner County, Tennessee, they have bought about 15,000 acres (23 sq. mi.) of land to gallop over-rolling grass country, dotted with farms. They plan an endowment for the land's upkeep in perpetuity. It is the biggest tract made safe for private chasing since King William had his idea about the woods in Hampshire. Workmen are pulling down wire fences, putting up rails, stone. Some of the farms will be rented "under strict agreement" and the rents, like King William...
...constant renewal of the worn out boards constitutes no small amount of upkeep...