Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figures. What made the Exchange so alert it would not reveal last week, but there was good reason to suppose that some of the Governors already suspected Whitney irregularities.* In November Governor Edward Henry Harriman Simmons had had difficulty getting Whitney to return certain securities of the Exchange Gratuity Fund...
...Grand Jury Dick Whitney's sister-in-law while he himself queried Mrs. Whitney. Then Prosecutor Dewey suddenly snatched Dick Whitney from under Lawyer Ambrose V. McCall's astounded nose with an indictment charging that Richard Whitney had appropriated another $105,000 in securities from the trust fund left by his father-in-law to Mrs. Whitney and her sister (Harvard University and St. Paul's School are residuary legatees). Richard Whitney was co-trustee of this fund. According to Mr. Dewey, in 1932, 1937 and 1938 Dick Whitney hypothecated its securities for loans...
...announcement was made before the new group had even chosen a name, its working plans were fairly definite. Each man has promised a new play for next season. (First production will be a play about Abraham Lincoln by Sherwood.) Each is pledged to put $10,000 into a common fund. Each will get regulation stage and movie royalties, share the general profit & loss of production...
Such facts are pleasing to seamy-faced Dr. Gabriel Davidson, who last week rendered his 30th annual report as general manager of the Jewish Agricultural Society. Established in 1900, the Society is still backed by a fund set up by Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-96), the great German Jewish philanthropist who spent millions trying to improve the lot of European Jews, to get them to emigrate from their ghettos. In 1900 there were 200 Jewish farmers in the U. S. Today, although many Americans have never seen any Jewish farmers, there are nearly 100,000, many of whom have...
...indicted on charges of grand larceny, Whitney is said to have misappropriated $108,000 as a co-trustee of a trust fund belonging to his wife's family, Sheldon by name, and benefiting among others Harvard University...