Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relations between Mr. Lewis and the President were running the normal course of creditor and debtor appeared last winter during the automobile strikes when the C. I. 0. chief bluntly reminded the Democratic Party that his United Mine Workers had contributed $500,000 to last year's campaign fund. For his pains he got a public rebuke. The split was widened by Mr. Lewis when he demanded that the Administration chastise the Southern Democrats who were scuttling the Wages & Hours Bill. For the past two months the stories about an imminent break have been inspired by none other than...
When easy-going bushy-whiskered Lumberman George Henry Leatherbee left an $84,000 trust fund to Harvard on his death in 1911 for free lectures on finance, open to the public, it was not in anticipation of any need for education of businessmen on the labor union problem. Upon accretion of the fund to where it yielded the stipulated $3,000 income in 1920, the first lecture series was given on "Real Estate Fundamentals." It drew six students. By 1934, 376 capitalists flocked to hear Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, fresh from the U. S. Treasury, lecture on inflation possibilities...
There will be no increase in the $20.00 fee this year in spite of the fact that the treasury has been considerably depleted because of the improvements. An attempt will now be made to build up a reserve fund in case of any emergency by the outbreak of some severe disease...
Inaugurated this fall was one of President Conant's finest pet ideas: the National Scholarship Plan, financed by the bountiful Tercentenary Fund. Created two years ago, this fund established the roving professorships and national scholarships, the latter to be bestowed upon promising youths from every section of the country that they might have an opportunity for study at a great American university. Last year scholarships of one thousand dollars were made available to students from fifteen states, ten in the Middle West and five in the South and Far West. As soon as additional rescources are at hand, the plan...
...ultimate future of the National Scholarship Plan's scope, few are so sanguine as to predict. Made possible largely by the generosity of those who contributed to the 300th Anniversary Fund, its spread must depend on such continued generosity