Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brews himself a pot of coffee and sits for hours, thinking and listening to the Rev. W. E. Hawkins, a fundamentalist preacher on Dallas' Station KRLD. After breakfast (a slice of melon or a bottle of Coke) he drives himself to work in a 1953 Ford. He works in shirtsleeves with no tie, throws papers that he wants filed on the carpeted floor...
...second time in the last two years, representatives of the Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and smaller foundations are under Congressional fire for using their tax-exempt funds to support projects "not in the public interest." But so far the Committee has expressed less concern with the abuse of tax privileges than with the policies of modern education...
Such foundations as the Rockefeller, Carnegic, and Ford have been exempted from Federal taxation because of their philanthropic aims. But the foundations would presumably be denied this exemption if the present committee, headed by Representative B. Carroll Reece (R. Tenn.), finds them guilty of using funds for political purposes...
Dodd said he had acquired information on work done at the University on grants from the Rockefeller, Carnegie, which financed the Russian Research Center, and Ford Foundations. He also reported that his staff had investigated the work of the Fund for Republic Foundation here...
...Fund for Republic, when first set up on a grant from the Ford Foundation last summer, prompted chairman Reece to promise to "get it." He accused it of being out "to get investigating committees...