Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to a contract with Phillips Brooks House, which agreed to underwrite the enterprise, 30 per cent of the profits would be returned for the law library fund. The social service center entered the agreement with the possibility they might suffer a loss and has indicated surprise at the yearbook's success...
...sweet charity's sake, Manhattan business firms have been used to periodic touches by money-raisers of all kinds, from Protestant uplifters to Catholic mendicant sisters. Organized last week was the Greater New York Fund, Inc. which, so far as business is concerned, will represent a community chest for 56 Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and nonsectarian eleemosynary bodies. Supplementing private donations, which will be expected as usual, the business touch will come but once a year, in May. Goal this year...
...speak of [New York] sometimes as a place wholly given up to material and worldly interests. But where, I ask, is there any other city in our land whose mayor has come forward with such a proposal as this?" Last week, at a meeting of Mayor LaGuardia's fund- raising committee, Bishop Manning announced that $52,000 was in hand, part of it a contribution from the head of a church which is in communion with the Episcopal-Archbishop Athenagoras, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North & South America...
...with Diesel engines to carry 800 passengers from Oslo, Kristiansand, Stavenger and Bergen to New York in seven days-twelve hours faster than any other Norwegian vessel. Grateful for Germany's slick construction job, the line gave a 10,000-mark tip to the shipyard's relief fund...
...passing, the conveners saluted the few men who in only three years have made this novel kind of insurance a nationwide big little business: Clarence Rufus Rorem, accountancy expert, onetime associate director of the Rosenwald Fund, who establishes these plans for members of the American Hospital Association ; Homer Wickenden, onetime social worker, who raised the money to start the first hospital service in Manhattan, now general director of New York City's United Hospital Fund; Frank Van Dyk, fund-raising specialist, who sold the idea to 600,000 New Yorkers, and as executive director of the Associated Hospital Service...