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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 6,695 contributors enrolled to date, the Harvard Fund for 1937 has passed the record number of subscribers set by the 1936 Fund, it was announced yesterday from Fund headquarters in Wadsworth House. Last year, for the third successive time, the Fund had more contributors than any other alumni fund in America...
...large enough. There can be no rain until next January, seven months. The relief fund would mean trying to keep 1,500,000 people alive that length of time at a little less than 2? a day a head. Tuareg tempers grew no better when, upon the first distribution of relief grain several weeks ago, many died from wolfing barley, then drinking water. The Government moved again, talked loudly of a great program of well-drilling and reservoir-building south of the Atlas. The Tuaregs have little interest in reservoirs for the future, they want food now, and France cannot...
Abolition of the luxury tax on theatre tickets, more WPA, establishment of modern auditoria from coast to coast to accommodate better road shows, a revolving fund for producers, more summer theatres, free seats for proven drama lovers were all discussed. But the Theatre's overpowering problem, the one which came in for far greater attention than any other and was worried over, snarled at, solved and despaired of by much the most important people at the convention was, of course, HOLLYWOOD...
...citadel of priceless antiquities and such Old Masters as only millionaires can buy, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art was long regarded as a costly tomb in which no contemporary art could live. A fund of $150,000 was established by the late George Arnold Hearn, who subsequently added another $100,000 in memory of his son Arthur Hoppock, to change all this. In the past ten years 85 paintings by living U. S. artists have been bought by the Metropolitan. Last week a significant addition to this catalog was announced: an oil by William Gropper, oldtime cartoonist...
...jury finds that the late Viscount Astor did not set up the trust fund to defeat expected estate taxes, as the U. S. claims he did, but merely to escape feared Wartime British capital confiscations, the present Viscount Astor and Major John Jacob Astor, heirs, may recover $10,825,721 in estate taxes collected by the U. S. Government in 1922, plus interest raising the sum to over...