Word: endow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with George M. Cohan Irish theater man. Mr. Cohan of Houston, Tex. gave a building to Rice Institute, named it for his father & mother (still living) and planned to endow it with instalments from his yearly income...
...cathedral and its associated institutions need $30,000,000. Already $6,000,000 have been given or pledged. The present campaign is for $6,800,000 to complete and endow new portions of the cathedral building itself...
...offer of $20,000 a week for an indefinite period to appear in the prolog at the Capitol cinema theatre in Manhattan. Mr. Jolson has money, a million or more; worries about his health. Eva Le Gallienne has no faith in her belief. She believes that the state should endow a low-priced theatre for the masses. "But the state isn't interested in such things." Miss Le Gallienne solved this conflict between her faith and her belief last season by founding in Manhattan the Civic Repertory Theatre. She has distant plans for a theatre which, supported...
...endow Mrs. Sacco & family...
...More than $5,000,000 of the fund to be raised will be used to endow professorships, so that Mr. Holt can carry out his plan to assemble at Rollins a group of great teachers who have the rare gift of teaching and who possess the nobility of character to inspire youth...