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More than $750,000 must be subtracted from donations to the Program for Harvard College to make up losses incurred as a result of curtailment of the activities of the Harvard Fund Council's annual solicitation of alumni...
Although the Fund drive is now $70,000 ahead of last year at this time, follow-up solicitations have been discontinued in deference to the Program campaign, according to David McCord '26, executive secretary of the Fund Council. A quarter of the usual million dollars of annual gifts is not expected this year, and the loss of another $500,000 will be incurred when the Fund's activities are discontinued until July...
...made good in Little Rock, then it can be made good in Arkansas. If it can be made good in Arkansas, then eventually it can be made good throughout the South." The words ''turning point" gave Baker an idea: why not establish a Little Rock scholarship fund for the nine colored children of Central High School-and for the white children who befriended them in the face of mob violence? Baker went before his congregation, dug into his modest Minister's Fund, came up with $100 as a starter. By this week he had upwards...
...Butler announced that he wants to make organized labor subject to existing antitrust laws. Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy, chairman of a labor subcommittee on remedial legislation, is at work directing a crew of experts who are examining a bookful of possibilities, such as tighter pension and welfare fund rules, strong laws defining conflict-of-interest deals, a federal commission similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission, that would protect the public interest against corrupt union activities just as SEC clamps down on abuses in business financing. Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan will doubtless offer a series...
...main object of the fund at present is to obtain the necessary $7.5 million for the library as soon as possible. After this is accomplished, there is no definite time limit set for the completion of the drive...