Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sample tax refunds: Mary Pickford Fairbanks ($10,163), John Davison Rockefeller ($157,227). Mortimer Schiff ($429,804), estate of William Jennings Bryan ($8,253), California Wine Association ($23,116), Thomas Alva Edison ($923), Edna Ferber...
...banquet tendered President Fortes Gil in Puebla City last August upon the conclusion of the last revolution, the Chief Executive, who has high plans for making Mexico temperate, scanned the liberal wine list, then suggested to General Almada that they both swear off tobacco and liquor, that the first to fumar (smoke) should pay the winner 100 silver pesos ($50), the first to beber (drink) should pay 200 silver pesos ($100). General Almada manfully agreed...
...intimation of a $6,000,000 Rockefeller Foundation gift impelled Professor Georges Eugène Henri Roger, dean of the Paris Medical School, to ask an option upon a 15-acre, tree-pied tract of the Paris wine depots last week, for new school buildings. The school needs the money. Erected in 1769-76, and added to by slow degrees, it now affords its students neither adequate space nor modern equipment...