Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been pictured. The bristly-haired Senator from South Carolina shouted that in Washington there is no Prohibition "to the wealthy man . . . to the embassies . . . to the cabinet . . . to Mr. Hoover if he does not want to have it . . . to a Senator . . . to a Congressman . . . to any man who has money to buy liquor...
...standing for forage, the rest they plow under for fertilizer. Fifteen years ago Dr. Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College began to look for cornstalk byproducts. Five years ago Iowa built him a $150.000 testing plant, the U. S. Bureau of Standards began to help with men and money. Dr. Sweeney produced and the state of Iowa patented a cornstalk wallboard, light, strong, cheap. Last week a million-dollar company was formed in Chicago to lease and exercise Iowa's patents...
...policemen, 224 firemen, 1,400 other employes. Alarmed citizens forecast dire results: uncollected garbage, unshoveled snow, unquenched fires, uncaught criminals. Underwriters spoke of higher insurance rates. To thicken the fiscal fog. however, City Treasurer Charles S. Peterson, self-styled "Custodian of the City Deficit," reported that there was no money in the treasury to meet a Jan. 20 payroll...
...Leaving behind him 'Pancho' and his home in Cuernavaca constitutes a genuine sorrow for Ambassador Morrow in his retirement from Mexico to the political life that confronts him in the Senate. . . . If money could do it Ambassador Morrow would transfer the entire town to the U. S. . . . Cuernavaca, capital of the State of Morelos, is the garden spot of the earth, in. the opinion of the diplomat...
...administration might have found some way to manage it, especially when one considers that $600 represents the income on only $10,000 and Harvard just received $5,000,000 with no strings attached. One is led to believe that the University administration was not particularly anxious to raise the money for when the Locker Building burned a few nights ago several hundred thousand dollars were raised within forty-eight hours to replace it. Harvard, as we know, exists almost entirely on either the conscience money paid over by rich men or the rent, profits, dividends and interest on her invested...