Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballroom, Conductor Mitropoulos and his men played a concert of musical burlesques and waltzes by Johann Strauss. Then, sure enough, they did pass the hat-to some 400 of Minneapolis' solider citizens. Into it dropped $20,000 and promises that the Minneapolis Symphony's annual guarantee fund of $130,000 would be fully subscribed for the next two years...
...Ohio, where the State school fund was $17,000,000 in the hole, several cities knew not how long they could keep schools open. School funds were low in Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, the Dakotas. The most desperate S. 0. S. came from schools in Georgia and Pennsylvania...
Upon this growing disease Congress has long been meditating, and the result of years of rehashing is the Harrison Bill. Called by President Roosevelt one of the most important of his tenure, its purpose is to equalize educational opportunities among the states by grants from a federal fund and still refrain from interference with local policy. To tax one part of the country in order to support the schools of another may be a breach of state autonomy, but it is the only means of preserving to rural America a vestige of public education. The Southeast cannot support schools...
...Malley's settlement returned 20% of the money to policyholders, 50% to the companies; the other 30% was to defray litigation costs. What the grand jury believed last week when it indicted Boss Pendergast and Mr. O'Malley, was that a $447,000 slush fund handed out for the insurance companies by a man named Street in Chicago, was split between Pendergast, O'Malley and a few others. Messrs. Pendergast & O'Malley posted $10,000 bail each. Said Boss Pendergast: "There's nothing the matter with...
Under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund Louis MacNeice, well known English poet, gave a reading of his poems yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. MacNeice holds a position on the University of London faculty...