Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John L. Lewis -has made it all those things. But if U. M. W.'s strength is in Leader Lewis, his strength is no less in that great union, some 500,000 strong. Its half-million votes, plus its $150,000 contribution to the Democratic campaign fund last summer, have made him a prime political power. Needing money for the C. I. O. campaign which has carried him to Labor's peak, he raised-and can raise again when he needs to-a $1,000,000 war chest simply by tapping each of his miners $1 per month...
...within the three years preceding his appointment. Declared sarcastic Senator Frazier, North Dakota Republican, after reading a list of Appointee Kennedy's achievements from Who's Who: "In addition to all these very eminent and obvious qualifications, Mr. Kennedy also contributed $50,000 to the Democratic Campaign Fund in 1932. If that doesn't qualify a man for a job like this I don't know what does...
Last week the curious fortunes of Apollos Smith and his son came to a curious end as Son Phelps' will was probated in the courtroom at Malone. With the exception of a $100,000 trust fund for several servants and relatives, Phelps Smith's $10,000,000 estate will go to establish a "corporation ... to be known as Paul Smith's College of Arts & Sciences . . . to be located upon the shores of St. Regis Lake if practicable . . . for the higher education of boys and girls." To keep out undesirable neighbors, Phelps Smith also provided for the formation...
...Sears' sources of supplies (6,461 manufacturers). After pointing with pride to the company's policy of keeping wages ahead of advancing living costs and providing vacations with pay, General Wood made the first public accounting of Sears' Employes' Savings & Profit Sharing Pension Fund through which the workers have become the largest single stockholding group in Sears, Roebuck & Co. (9.2%). Inaugurated in 1916 by the late great Julius Rosenwald, the Fund has paid out $45,204,000 to a total of 65,000 employes who paid in only $10,042,000. Company contributions and stock dividends...
...Yale and Princeton, and found that Harvard is the only college which does not appropriate money for debating. The report pointed out that the Oberlin College team was complaining because its appropriation had been cut from $1200 to $600, while the Debating Council receives only $340 from the Coolidge Fund...