Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downcast were Messrs. Greene and Cannon as they signed statements releasing Mr. Gerard from his bet, in return for $1,700 each of Mr. Gerard's money by way of indemnity. Betting Commissioner Greene pocketed his profits, kept mum. Mr. Cannon presented his profits to the Republican campaign fund as he beamed: "This amounts to getting something for nothing and you can't kick at that." Asked whether he would place his bet against Roosevelt elsewhere, he emphatically repudiated the idea: "I wouldn't sell my vote this year for any amount. I've waited three...
...Fort Belvedere at Sunningdale, to Southampton and back to Sunningdale, while Queen Mary went by train. May 28 proclamation that His Majesty will be crowned May 12, 1937. June 7 gifts of $5,000 each by King Edward and Queen Mary to head subscriptions to the King George Memorial Fund for children's play places. June 13 surprise visit with Minister of Labor Ernest Brown ("The Man With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") to training centres at Slough and Acton where jobless British men are being taught to become mechanics, painters, hotel waiters and hairdressers...
...publishers are notoriously close-mouthed about the balance sheets of their papers. Best opinion is that all New York newspapers cost way too much to run, none pays a respectable return on the money invested in it. If the World-Tele-gram, on which a $1,350,000 exploitation fund was lavished in its first eight months, has yet had any profits to share with the Brothers Pulitzer, the news has not been made public. Its circulation, never far over 400,000, has lately remained about 100,000 above the arch-conservative Sun, about 200,000 below the rowdy Journal...
...Since 1930 the Guggenheim Fund has been paying expenses of Robert Hutchings Goddard's experiments in the American desert near Roswell, New Mexico with (1 television, 2 dry farming, 3 rockets, 4 high compression gasoline engines, 5 malleable glass...
Unlike such elaborate public patrons as the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Rosenwalds, Edward S. Harkness has set up no foundation, never attaches his name to his benefactions.* When in 1930 he established a $10,000,000 fund to aid British charities he called it the "Pilgrim Trust." Best of all he likes to scatter his largesse in out-of-the-way places. He has given $500,000 to California's Save-the-Red-woods League, $2,500 to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin to buy anesthetics for maternity hospitals. He once persuaded Great Britain to run a smelly motor highway around Grantchester...