Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally admitted that this country prepared for her part in the war in about as extravagant a manner as possible. Circumstances seemed to justify this action since we had more money than time with which to get our men into the trenches. But we have elevated this excuse for an emergency into a rule of conduct. Our bills were not paid with the signing of the armistice. With a funded debt of twenty-six billion dollars, there is an annual interest charge of over one billion. From the $750,000,000 which flowed into the Treasury last Tuesday from...
Starting with an endowment of $2,000,000, the Department of Education is established on a firm basis. Five hundred thousand dollars of this money was contributed by the General Education Board, which has its headquarters in New York, and similar sum was set aside by the University from the funds which were being used for advancement of the Division of Education. The amount of $200,000 was collected by the overseers' committee for the department, and the balance of the sum was secured through private subscription...
...total estimated requirements for the next fiscal year, excluding the money necessary for the Railroad Administration, is $5,250,000,000, or an average of $47 for every person in the United States. This enormous sum will be decreased by Congress to at least...
...What we need at the present time is more production, in accord with the inexorable law of supply and demand. Our great need now is for more of everything for everybody. It is not money that the nation or the world needs today, but the products of labor. All of us must work and in that work there should be no interruption. Talents and opportunity exist in abundance...
Public opinion has prevented congress from purchasing adequate embassies in the great capitals of the world. The salary paid an ambassador is not enough to meet the rent of a decent home in London, Paris or Rome. Therefore, wealthy men who are willing to spend their own money on the decencies of diplomatic appearances are, as a rule, appointed to our very expensive jobs in the capitals abroad. Any man of moderate means would emerge from such an office impoverished. And then public opinion cries out that a poor man never holds a high diplomatic commission from this land...