Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Lobby Committee reported on their activities. They had, he said, spent jointly some $400,000 to influence tariff legislation. Declared he: "The whole scheme is nothing but simple graft. . . . People might just as well go to a palm reader or a crystal gazer as to give their money to lobbyists...
...further endeavors. Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, director of the Anti-Saloon League, proposed raising $50,000,000 for a ten-year program of "education." Four years ago a similar campaign on a smaller scale was instituted, no report made on its success or cost. Delegates speculated on whence the money would come. Dr. Cherrington said he had no large donors in mind, added: "We'll get it somehow. In God we trust...
...Anti-Saloon League voted: 1) to get its friends to leave it large inheritances; 2) to oppose all referenda on Prohibition; 3) to intensify its propaganda; 4) to secure more Federal money and men for enforcement...
...leader of the party should have a good deal to do in how party funds are spent, but this is different. Mr. Lloyd George, in effect, told us [on the eve of the General Election] that if we didn't do what he wanted we would get no money. But even if the Liberal party can clear itself of its dependence upon Mr. Lloyd George's money there is still the question of our want of confidence in his leadership...
...reputed $15,000,000 fund raised by Mr. Lloyd George in the last years of his Prime Ministry, allegedly by selling peerages. He insists that he has never put a penny of the money in his own pocket, keeps it in the mythical Party Oak Chest to which he alone has the metaphorical...