Word: fund
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Four years ago Bishop Manning engaged the Manhattan firm of Tamblyn & Brown, money raisers extraordinary, to collect a $15,000,000 fund for the completion of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. A campaign slogan, "A house of prayer for all people," helped extract gifts from Jews, Catholics, Protestants alike...
...Swede Nobel's bequest was $9,000,000. Every year 68% of the income is available for prizes; 22% for "expenses." The remaining 10% is added to the slowly increasing fund. Original Nobel Prizes in 1901 were $40,511. After the War they declined to a low of $30,802 in 1923, due to high taxes and depreciation of the Swedish kronor. This year for the first time Sweden has taken most of the taxes off the Nobel Fund, a deed of grace long stormily debated...
...letter in today's CRIMSON advocating more information on the proposed Memorial Chapel is indicative of a positive and widespread concern in the undergraduate body regarding this subject. As is suggested, the House Plan has in all probability prevented the completion of the fund for the building, but this does not exclude this subject from discussion. To the contrary, in view of the fact that no definite action has been taken, the present is the time when consideration would, be most valuable merely because it could affect the plans in their embryo state...
...Adopted a resolution directing Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to account for the expenditure of the $1,719,654 auxiliary prohibition fund appropriated at the last session...
Into the record went a list-a "sucker list," Wisconsin's Blaine called it-of last year's contributors to this joint lobby fund. Samples...