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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Letters from the Harvard Fund class agents are being mailed this week to the members of all classes graduated from 1853 to 1926, according to an announcement made last night by the Harvard Fund Council. Special letters are also being sent from the Fund Council office to former members of the graduate schools. The first contributions to the Fund have already begun to come in in large numbers...
...percentage table of the standings of the various classes in regard to the number of contributors has developed into one of the best stimuli to the Fund...
...never been greater than $3,000.00 a year the museum has acquired, in addition to loans from private sources, collections whose value is estimated to be in excess of $3,000,000.00. A new building has been erected at a cost of about $1,000,000.00 and an endowment fund of equal amount has been raised. It is not seeking to become a great tomb of art. The collections on display are there for the use ond instruction of those whose interest in art is more than a polite gesture and the more completely these collections represent the great periods...
...Watson of Indiana, old-school behind-the-scenes man; a few other Republicans; and Democrat, Cole L. Blease of South Carolina, whom only Mr. Heflin robs of the title "Buffoon of the Senate"-were determined to prevent Senator James A. Reed's committee from making any more campaign fund investigations. Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania, particularly, did not want his distant cousin, Mr. Reed of Missouri, to open the ballot boxes which elected slush-tainted William S. Vare. The Pennsylvanian insisted that the regular Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, containing a majority of old-guard Republicans, was best fitted...
When blind Senator Thomas D. Schall goes home to Minnesota he will feel and hear a disturbance in the political air. Malignant Minnesotans, particularly friends of Magnus ("Magnavox") Johnson, whom Mr. Schall defeated in 1924, are saying that bootleggers contributed to Mr. Schall's campaign fund. Such charges being "a dirty mess on the doorstep of the state," the State Senate last week voted, 54 to 1, to conduct an investigation. It matters not that the U. S. Senate looked into Mr. Schall's election last spring (TiME, June 28) and found it pure enough to allow...