Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Radcliffe took action before Harvard. Immediately after the joint protest meeting on Wednesday, November 16th, a committee was formed, Miss Ada L. Comstock, President, came out in approval, and Radcliffe College promised to give tuition to any students whom the girls could support by the funds they raised. A minimum goal of a thousand dollars was set, and the latest report is that it has already been topped by variout desperate measures. In particular, a week ago last Sunday, all the students agreed to eat hash instead of steak, and go without their usual ice cream dessert. This meant...
...movie for the benefit of the fund to aid refugee students will be given at the University Theater at 11:30 P. M. Thursday. The feature picture will be Charles Laughton in "Rembrandt," with a Robert Benchley short and the March of Time...
...success behind it. Its employes kitty in 5% of their wages. The company matches this with a contribution of 5% of the worker's wage for the first two years, increases this to a maximum of 15% by the time the worker has served 15 years. The fund is used to purchase stock over a period of six years, after which the employe draws cash dividends. President Deupree said the plan has reduced his company's labor turnover almost to .5%. Key to its success, said he, was keeping profit-sharing from becoming a substitute for higher wages...
Genial General Robert E. Wood explained Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s similar plan. Its employe fund now holds $42,600,000 worth of securities, all Sears, Roebuck stock, making the employe fund the largest single interest in the company...
Miss Thompson recently started a fund to delend Hershel Grynspan, Jewish boy whose shooting of a Nazi diplomat in Paris precipitated the new wave of Jewish persecution in Germany...