Word: fund
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Otter Creek, rushing into Rutland, Vt., caused damage estimated at five millions. Wealthy Rutlanders made haste to subscribe to a $500,000 voluntary, statewide fund suggested by Governor Weeks. They will be paid back in emergency state bonds...
...property damage than any other from floods; that levee construction would scarcely affect Oklahoma; that the way to start controlling the Mississippi was by impounding its tributaries in reservoirs; that reservoirs affected agriculture and waterpower and should therefore not be a wholly Federal project. Senator Thomas proposed a Federal fund of ten millions, to be administered by the President in national disasters, and gave the Flood Control Committee a bill he had drawn to this effect...
...inexhaustible fund of stories, suited to all climes, ages, and moods, makes him one of the most congenial of the Cambridge newspapermen. It is not so much the stories which he tells, as those which he might tell, which renders him a popular speaker in any gathering of the Fourth Estate. His popularity with the fraternity is increased by his ability to be, on occasion, a very good listener...
Invitations to the ceremonies have been sent to the President and Fellows of the University, the subscribers to the memorial fund, members of the Class of 1899, to all members of the squads coached by Haughton at Harvard, and to the players on the 1899 baseball team, which he led as captain...
...Chicago Symphony, threatened some weeks ago (TIME, July 25) by the musicians' demand for pay increase, announced that three citizens-Chairman John J. Mitchell of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., George Lytton and Mrs. Kellog Fairbank-have given the $30,000 symphony fund, of which each musician will receive $10 weekly. Twenty-eight subscription concerts were announced for Fridays and Saturdays, 12 for Tuesday matinees, 16 popular concerts, 12 children's. Conductor Frederick Stock is in command; Maurice Rave, guest conductor...