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...score of ingenious ruses for extricating funds from fat pockets among alumni and benevolent friends-class insurance, class honor rolls, winning football teams, and (old but infallible) honorary degrees. Last week, headquarters of the Hampton-Tuskegee Endowment Fund uncovered a new trick, successfully worked upon Donor George Eastman, Rochester, N. Y., camera...
...Eastman had offered two of the five millions sought, on condition that the remaining three millions be found before 1926. The Hampton-Tuskegeeites countered with a proposal that the fifth million be allowed to take the form of "annuity gifts"-sums (over $5,000) which would be turned over to the fund as its property but upon which interest (5% to 8%) would be paid back to the donors during their lifetimes...
Directors of the Eastman Kodak Co. paid 75? a share on the common stock...
...relations with Eastman differed in nothing from my relations with a number of other Communists or foreign 'sympathizers' who have asked my assistance in studying the October Revolution, our party and the Soviet State- not more than that...
...Eastman exploits single incidents of the party discussion to blacken our party and to undermine all confidence by perverting the meaning of facts. I should think, however, that any serious and reflective reader need not even take the trouble to verify Eastman's references and 'documents' (which, moreover, would not be accessible to everybody), but would find it sufficiently simple to ask himself, if the derogatory characteristics given by Eastman to the leading personnel of our party had been true, how could this party have gone through the long years of underground struggle, have made the greatest...