Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defendants conspired to spend Maverick money in 50? pieces to pay the $1.50 poll tax for an I. L. G. W. U. member so he could help elect him. (By Texas law, no one can vote without paying a poll tax.) Defense maintained that the money was spent legally for campaign purposes...
...offer: he wanted to restore peace. He haughtily produced a sheaf of warehouse receipts, replied with Oxonian accent: "I own more than $800,000 worth of aged whiskey. I am an adventurer. Within a few days I can raise $50,000 or $60,000. I've spent that much money in two or three weeks on a pleasure cruise...
Siepmann has been connected with the British Broadcasting Corporation for twelve years, of which the first eight were spent in the Adult Education Department, and the past four in executive offices, Invited by President Conant to perform research on the role of radio in education, and financed by a private American organization not connected with Harvard or with the British Government, he "nearly fell over backwards" in eagerness to accept the offer...
...retainers of McFay and a clammy Cuban (Sheldon Leonard) who has perfected the cutest blackmailing trick of the year. He dreams twice that people die. If he dreams it a third time they do. So he assesses people to keep him from dreaming. By the time Nick has spent a quiet week catching the murderer, he has had a knife thrown at him, been shot at and had his baby snatched. Nora has found out about Nick's affair with a lighthouse keeper's daughter and inspired the love of an aging gigolo...
...last ten years an average of $1.18 per acre per inch of snow has been spent by the University on keeping the ways clean, Johnson revealed, and a total of $9415.05 was spent on snow removal last year...