Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of Rowse's analysis focuses properly on front-page treatment. He illumines his discussion of each paper by reproducing a photograph of the whole front page of the first edition that carried the Nixon Fund story...
...following Sunday every Anglican clergyman in South Africa read from his pulpit a letter from his controlling bishop urging him to defy church apartheid, and proposing to establish a fund to support people prosecuted under the act. "If Verwoerd were so foolhardy now as to try to implement his church clause," said the conservative Johannesburg Star, "he would make an eternal martyr of the first person arrested, set the Anglican church in revolt, and probably spark off a series of events that would convulse the entire country." But that was not all. The Presbyterian Church declared church segrega tion "morally...
...there is little on the horizon to indicate any real slackening in the economic tide. In a report issued this week, the Twentieth Century Fund declared that U.S. productive power has grown at such a spectacular rate over the last half-century that the American economy has assumed entirely new dimensions. "The U.S. has not merely climbed to a new plateau but is ascending heights whose upper limit is not yet measurable, and at an accelerated rate of speed. Our long-term trend is unmistakably upward...
...newly eligible groups (self-employed farmers, disabled persons past 50, women past 62, etc.) will force Government to pay benefits totaling $300 million more than contributions this year, $600 million more than contributions in 1958, $1 billion more in 1959. But bulk of imbalance will be made up by fund's $600 million yearly return on investments...
...small children and their pet parrots, baby lamb and two horses. He gets 1,000 fan letters a week, and is quick to put in a good-and powerful-word for good causes. When he introduced a priest who was struggling to raise a tiny church, the building fund was oversubscribed by the next day's mail. Once he put an agonized mother on his program to appeal for the return of her kidnaped child. When she got home from the television studio, the baby was on her doorstep, safe and sound. Mexicans thank Paco Malgesto for that...