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...being returned, 193 men favored increasing undergraduates influence in elections and social functions, with five opposed and five making no reply (a 97.5 percent affirmative response). Oddly enough, the second biggest vote-getter among the four questions was the proposal to institute the payment of small annual dues to defray the costs of increased social activities. The vote...
Under provisions of funds established by William F. Milton '58 and Joseph H. Clark '57, the grants are made to faculty members to defray expenses of special investigations...
...present Sendak is recording two or three minute speeches on phonograph records, which will be sent west to be played at political meetings. Home town papers have made much of the fact that he has sold his saxaphone to help defray his expenses...
...short by infantile paralysis. Badly in need of an operation for a liver ailment, she was too weak to have it, too poor to pay for it. Promoters of the California's women's football championship game hoped that a third of the gate receipts (pledged to defray Georgia's operation costs) would amount to the needed...
...Reynaud is known to believe in a "pay-as-you-go" policy as far as possible in this war, the real story of French war finances was not to be revealed until the Finance Minister presents the military budget, which will be drawn up every three months. Meanwhile, to defray the increased costs, both civilian and military, taxes went up. The so-called extraordinary income tax was raised from 2% to 5% on low incomes and to 15% on incomes above $155 monthly earned by male noncombatants of military age. Other new taxes included the upping of postal rates, increased...