Word: fund
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made a member of the Guggenheim Fund Committee on elementary and secondary aeronautical education...
From Freedom, Me., from Ty Ty, Ga., from Roosevelt, Minn., from Coolidge, Kan.-from some 35,000 Rural Free Delivery routes throughout the land have gone a dime each from country mailmen. Each 10? contribution rolled into Washington to make up a total of $3,500. With this fund a shiny seven-passenger automobile was purchased by the Rural Letter Carriers' Association (membership: 43,700) and rolled to the Post Office Department where it was presented as a farewell gift to Harry H. Billany as he retired as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, "chief" of the country mailmen...
Long has John North Willys of Toledo been a Big Automotive Man. He speaks French and English fluently, has often discoursed upon the automobile business, upon U. S. business in general. He contributed $25,000 to the Hoover campaign fund (Postmaster General Brown is a fellow townsman) and he was "responsible" for an additional $125,000. He has been "mentioned" for Ambassador to France, Japan, Turkey. After the War, when King Albert of Belgium visited Toledo as guest of Brand Whitlock, a fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along...
...every $100 which his patient was to owe him. When the full bill was paid to the financing corporation the doctor would get $51.37 more, a total of $86.37 for each $100 of service. The corporation would keep $13.63 for its expenses and for a fund to pay off bad debts...
...Ambassador to France, onetime Governor of Ohio, was filed last week. Chief bequests: $50,000 to the Herrick Public Library of Wellington, Ohio,* for the construction of a children's library wing; $20,000 for the optional use of the library trustees; a $15,000 endowment fund to the American Hospital at Neuilly, just outside Paris. Estimated net value of the Herrick estate...