Word: spent
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Appearing before the House Public Lands Committee, she sponsored her bill to create Everglades National Park at the southwest tip of Florida. Called as a witness was a man who has spent much time in the 2,000-sq.-mi. area, famed Gynecologist-Naturalist Howard Atwood Kelly of Baltimore. Dr. Kelly told the committee about the grandeur of the vast mangrove swamp with its rare white ibis and roseate spoonbills. He impressed upon his listeners that the district harbored the only tropical bird rookery in the U. S. Then, lest the committee grow bored, he released a slithering grey & yellow...
...back public confidence in the police force, fortnight ago the Patrolmen's Benefit Association spent $30,000 publishing full-page spreads in 55 metropolitan and upstate papers, pleading that the entire department be not judged by the accused vice squad officers, "who still have their day in court...
...October advocating the defeat of Republican Senator George William Norris. In spite of the fact that Chairman Simeon D. Fess had promised support for all Republican candidates ''without exception," Secretary Lucas testified that-at the behest of Nebraska regulars who have long opposed Insurgent Norris-he had spent $4,000 of his own money in having a cartoon, a circular letter and a pamphlet of anti-Norris editorials disseminated throughout the state. Senator Nye had previously pried out the facts in the printing plant of Charles I. Stengle, onetime Brooklyn Congressman, now editor of the National Farm News...
...Democrat,?than Democrats began to protest that Mr. McNinch was no good party man (TIME, Dec. 15). Appointee McNinch in 1928 had proclaimed that Alfred Emanuel Smith "procured his nomination at Houston by stealth and fraud." He had headed the State's Anti-Smith Democratic Committee, raised and spent $30,906 to turn North Carolina Republican. Last week Mr. McNinch was summoned before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to explain his politics, his qualifications...
...week's end U. S. correspondents suddenly learned that Censor Seeger was technically correct in denying that Hitlerites had forced the film's closing. None less than old President Paul von Hindenburg, a man who had spent a half century in the German Army, had threatened to resign "if this libel on the German soldier" was not withdrawn...