Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, Secretary Woodring retorted that on Governor Aiken's head would lie full blame for blocking the Federal flood control program in Vermont. Franklin Roosevelt sniffed that Governor Aiken would not have to spend his $67,500 fighting fund: if he would rather have States' rights than Federal flood control, all right, the War Department would scratch Vermont off its list, pour its dollars and its dams into other States...
...insisted that Recovery was the reason for the sharp decline in WPA rolls since November's elections, and thereby gave them an argument against a big new WPA fund. Meanwhile, Senators studied a report by a special committee under South Carolina's Byrnes which, if translated into law, would effectively wreck WPA as a permanent, billion-dollar political machine...
...left to "establish a fund in aid of the Harvard Law School," and this fund is to be known as the "Emory Washburn Memorial Fund, endowed by a member of the Class of 1872." Only the income may be used, but there are no other restrictions as to use of the money by the Law School. Although it is not known how the bequest will be invested, it would seem to be a safe prediction that the income will amount to at least $20,000 a year and probably more...
Mark Van Doren, noted American poet, will give a reading of his own poems, open to the public without change, this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. The reading is sponsored by the Morris Gray Poetry Fund of Harvard...
...election will take place in the second week of March, Kerins last night hinted at "some support"; he is rumored to be backed by a Government Department campaign fund...