Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideal device for comedy. Richard Dix is the young author who bets that he can write a book in 24 hours and sits down to work in a lonely house in the country to which he believes he has the only key. Typical shot: $25,000 in stage money burning in the fireplace at Baldpate...
Awarded. To the League of Nations; the annual Woodrow Wilson Foundation Peace Prize of $25,000. The Foundation hoped the money would be used for Wilson memorial doors in the League's $5,000,000 headquarters (TIME, Sept. 16), now abuilding at Geneva, Switzerland...
...killed two years ago trying to find hapless Umberto Nobile who had been wrecked with his Pole visiting semirigid Italia. Wilkins is now at Antarctica making occasional exploratory flights from Deception Island. Eielson was with him there last year, would have returned except that he had "to make some money." He said: "This exploring life is fascinating. But you can't live on glory when you get old." Managing Alaskan Airways was the opportunity he took...
...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...
...been sent from home were distributed by Trainer Frank Wandle. The Army varsity gave retiring Coach Biff Jones a white-gold watch. A San Francisco department store gave the Army varsity a 20 per cent discount; the cadets liked this because they are not allowed to carry much money...