Word: donor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build on the triangle of land formed by Massachusetts Avenue and Quincy Street opposite the Union, would be his testing plant and model for future additions. Fortunately, however, when he applied to the College Education Board for a grant he was turned down, and was still searching for a donor when Harkness appeared, fresh from his rebuff at New Haven...
After meeting with Lowell, Harkness offered three million dollars to build the Honors House, subject to the approval of the governing board and faculty. His only stipulation: that the donor remain anonymous...
...writing his memoirs to send in a piece he wrote a few years ago in memory of his first wife. Said Judge Olin Downes, New York Times critic: "It has a melody, which very few composers of our time can carry through an entire composition. It has what the donor really wanted-tranquillity . . . And by golly it has a tune...
...Very nice music," nodded Donor Benjamin. He ordered it recorded for his home collection and set up another tranquillity award for next year...
...Curran, Republican leader of Manhattan, said that he got $10,000 for introducing two lawyers who wanted to negotiate the purchase of the Yonkers track site. From another source, whose connections were never fully explained, Curran's wife got 500 shares of Yonkers stock. "I told him [the donor] not to," said Curran, "and I didn't think he would." Mrs. Curran hesitated for almost two years, however, before returning the stock just as the investigating commission was set up. Among other freeloading Republicans...