Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carriers had no trouble at all with Hoffa's union. ¶ Hoffa and Brennan lent Eugene James $2,000 or $2,500 to start operations of a Detroit jukebox local; in return, "Jimmie" James, later accused by a Senate investigation committee of stealing $900,000 from a welfare fund, put Hoffa's and Brennan's wives on the union payroll (using their maiden names), paid them about...
...North Dakota banking family, tried banking in Fargo, N. Dak. (1918-19). flopped at Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Chicago (1921-25), married very rich Marion Rosenwald* in 1921 (they were divorced in 1937), did better on the board of multimillionaire father-in-law Julius Rosenwald's Rosenwald Fund, also sat in as chairman of the Illinois State Housing Board (1933-37). She went to the University of Chicago (1926-30), learned there, as she put it. about "inequality, injustice, economic persecution," put in two years as assistant literary editor of the Chicago Tribune (1931-33), flung herself into sportive...
...legal handiwork of a doctrinaire Socialist. Back in 1946 Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton, operating on the Socialist theory that "the best that still remains should surely become the heritage not of a few private owners but of all our people," set aside a $140 million fund to reimburse the internal revenue department for land and historic houses accepted in lieu of death duties. Last year the Tories widened Dalton's plan to include work's of art, and the duke saw his chance to save Chatsworth after...
...license fees, taxes and even the repair bills, allowed the cronies to fill up their private cars at city gas pumps. Estimated cost of the largesse: several hundred thousand dollars yearly. ¶ Lauro required every city contractor to kick back up to 10% to his "Welfare and Feast Fund," supposedly for poor Neapolitans, who thought their Christmas packages and spaghetti handouts had come from Lauro's own pocket. ¶Dandified Senator Gaetano Fiorentino, Lauro's No. 1 helper who now drives a $6,000 Mercedes-Benz, padded the public-assistance fund, which he administers, with 5,000 extra...
...system is running in the red. In the fiscal year just ended, payroll taxes fell short by $125 million of covering the benefits paid out to 10 million retired workers or dependents. The $600 million that the U.S. Treasury paid as interest on the $23 billion Social Security trust fund invested in federal bonds more than covered the deficit. But this fiscal year the deficit will eat up all the interest payment, and next year there will be a gap of around $1 billion between Social Security tax receipts and payments...