Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publicized members ranged all the way from a Capitol charwoman, who makes 50? an hour, to NLRB's Edwin Seymour Smith, who makes $10,000 a year, and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman ($9,000), who "joined" last year by contributing $2 to a fund for Loyalist Spain. A few did not even know that they were members of the League...
...Council has suggested two alternatives to the Administration's present course: the setting up of a "President's Fund" to take care of pressing short-run departmental needs; and the appointment of associate professors even without the mathematical certainty that they will be promoted to full professorships. These proposals are neither impractical nor startling. Both were implied in the Committee of Eight's Report, and the "frozen" associate professorships have been urged by the Crimson, the Progressive and the high-sounding "Committee to Save Harvard Education." Skirting the broad issue of dictatorship (however benevolent) versus democracy in Harvard's administration...
Year ago, the highly reputable National Bureau of Economic Research got a fund from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Association of Reserve City Bankers to study instalment credit. It found a red-haired University of Pennsylvania professor named Ralph Young, and a black-haired Hunter College girl named Blanche Bernstein who knew her onions, having plowed through difficult statistical jobs with NRA, WPA, U. S. Department of Labor, etc. These two, with three assistants, were set up in N.B.E.R.'s financial research workshop-an estate (next door to Arturo Toscanini), in swank Riverdale, N. Y., with tennis court, swimming...
Three subjects are prescribed by the terms of the fund as those to be given in rotation. The subject this year will be "the validity of non-episcopal ordination...
...widespread than poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), but more destructive, is encephalitis. Young victims are often left stupid, shuffling, problem children, older ones drooling cripples, with muscular tremors, mumbling speech, double vision. Twelve years ago Chemist William John Matheson gave several hundred thousand dollars for a study of the disease. The fund has dwindled, for the Matheson Commission takes no money for treatment. Executive secretary of the Commission is capable Dr. Josephine Bicknell Neal who has investigated a remarkable Bulgarian belladonna treatment for chronic cases, long used in Europe. These tablets which Dr. Neal considers "by far the most effective method...