Word: billion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...worked on that case of goods has paid taxes out of his own pocket, he has paid his tax on what money he may have in the Savings Banks and upon the cottage which he owns or is trying to own. The Democrats talk a good deal about the Billion Dollar Congress, but I say a spirit of too great economy is not good for a country any more than it is for a great university and I am glad that the President of the university has not acted on that plan. Parsimony ought not to be the rule. Appropriation...