Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissioner had received $67,000 from Parmelee Transportation Co., which operates 2,000 taxicabs in New York City, through President Morris Markin of Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., Parmelee's parent organization. In return, said the indictment. Commissioner Harnett had let Parmelee put up its own $250,000 bonding fund to save paying premiums to a bonding company, and then allowed Parmelee to "borrow" half its money back for operating expenses, while denying these special but not illegal privileges to rival companies. Arrested, fingerprinted, released on $5,000 bail, Commissioner Harnett denied all charges before resigning his post to save...
...This fund is similar to the Rhodes scholarships of national scope...
Founded "in the earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States," the Charles and Julia Henry Fund will provide seven one-year fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge to American students next year. The deadline for applications is Thursday, December...
...university is not merely a training school but also a seat of higher learning under the continuous duty to contribute to the fund of knowledge at the command of mankind", he wrote. "This double function of scholarship and training is indivisible; there can be no separation of teaching and research...
...executive committee meeting last night, the newly organized Harvard Committee to Aid German Student Refugees decided to center its solicitation drive around subscriptions to the Harvard Fund, Robert E. Lane, Jr. '39, executive chairman, announced...