Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educational institutions. Beneficiaries included the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York (6,700 shares); Harvard University (3,300); Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital (1,700); Catholic Chari- ties of the Archdiocese of New York (700); Tuskegee Institute (200); New York Fire Department Relief Fund (200); Metropolitan Museum...
...leaped last week into the blazing firelight of the 1936 Presidential campaign as an issue of prime importance. For months unbiased voters have scratched their puzzled heads while Republicans snarled that the Democrats were brazenly turning last year's $4,880,000,000 relief appropriation into a campaign fund and Democrats replied that the Republican charge was merely the familiar old bleat of the Outs against the fictitious misdeeds of the Ins. Until last week neither party had cared or was able to back up its position with facts & figures. Even though highly partisan and hence open...
...final pattern of world currency stabilization, this week's international deal set no ratio between the dollar, the franc, and the pound, left that to be developed by the course of trade. Any other country with a stabilization fund and a desire to end international currency fluctuation was welcome to join Secretary Morgenthau's party. As for the ordinary citizen of France, of Britain or of the U. S., this week's gold pact changed his monetary routine...
Further facts on the semi-official progress of 1940 show that a record number, 480, filled in the "hobby"--cards which were distributed at one of the "Freshman Week" meetings. With a Class fund of $150 to back them, and administered by the Union Committee, an ample program of activities is foreseen for men with socially-united extra-curricular leanings...
Former Justice Blcakley has cogently advanced the argument that New York contributes one of every four dollars to the entire New Deal experimentation fund, yet receives two one-hundredths of one per cent in return, while Mississippe, a typical southern state, realizes a tidy return of 466 per cent on its investment. This discrepancy is directly due to Governor Lehman's spineless acceptance of whatever scraps are thrown to him by the New Deal revelers. Here is a prime reason for every farmer and every other New York tax payer to line up behind the Republican aspirants, who show...