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...need to do, said Cavanaugh, is not only strengthen their schools and colleges, but recapture their tradition as intellectual leaders. Unfortunately, the 2,500,000 alumni of Catholic colleges and universities do not seem to be doing much of anything. "I am a member of the board of the Fund for Adult Education of the Ford Foundation. In the last six years we have given away $29 million . . . Not a single Catholic program of liberal adult education has, so far as I can remember, received a dime. This has been due, not to bigotry, but to the fact that there...
...Good apprentices," wrote Benjamin Franklin shortly before his death in 1790, make good citizens." With these words, Franklin set up in Boston one of the earliest of U.S. foundations-a ?1.000 fund approximately $5,000) to provide loans : 5% interest to "young married artifiers." It was all very worthy, but there was one hitch. With the gradual disappearance of apprentices, the Franklin Foundation ran out of young artificers to sponsor...
Since Ben Franklin stipulated that a portion of the money could be spent on Public works" after 100 years, the trusses in 1891 turned over three-fourths of le snowballing fund (then $424,945) to Boston, which eventually used the money to endow the Franklin Technical Institute. But Franklin had also stipulated that whatever capital might be left should accumulate interest for another 100 years till 1991, when it would be divided between Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Last week, weary of sitting on a fortune that was doing nobody any good, the foundation's trustees filed...
...travels Kishi has stressed three major themes: 1) Japan is sorry (for World War II), 2) Japan wants to help underdeveloped Asiatic nations with Japanese technical know-how, 3) Japan would be delighted to set up as the clearing house for a largely U.S.-financed $1 billion Asiatic development fund. Understandably enough, many of the nations Kishi singled out to benefit from these plans are suspicious that what the Japanese really have in mind is a revival, along economic rather than military lines, of Tojo's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...racist policies. Six years ago Sir Ernest began turning over control of the empire to Harry, made him co-managing director of Anglo American. As he was elected chairman, Harry resigned his Parliament seat, donated $2,800,000 of his personal fortune to a new Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Fund to be used in furthering his father's charities...