Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaganovich introduced his protege to the top Kremlin big shots, and Khrushchev, who had wit and a fund of droll peasant sayings, and could laugh with his hands on his hips at the boss's mordant quips, was soon a regular visitor at the dacha Stalin kept for his fun-loving consort Roza Kaganovich, Lazar's sister. Khrushchev was a good deal more useful to Stalin than many of his Kremlin dummies. Twice Stalin sent him into the Ukraine to deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores...
...chair was endowed in memory of Wolbach, who was professor of Pathological Anatomy at the Medical School from 1922 to 1947 and professor emeritus from 1947 to his death in 1954. The funds for the chair were raised by the medical center as part of a $15,060,000 fund drive...
...program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt uneasy about his vote. On his weekend, he read up on the advantages of a long-range fund: e.g., a three-year authorization, in place of the usual one-year program, would be more efficient, less expensive and would encourage underdeveloped countries to undertake sound, well-planned projects...
Back to the committee room went Brooks Hays, convinced that his first vote was wrong. He moved for reconsideration, got new help from members who had been absent from the first meeting, and emerged with a committee vote recommending the development fund (already approved by the Senate) to the full House...
...longtime policy, began to squawk "socialism" at many programs that had widespread support among business and professional leaders. In quick succession the paper 1) helped defeat a proposal to fluoridate the city water, 2) successfully opposed a municipal parking project to relieve downtown congestion, 3) cold-shouldered a fund drive for the community-backed convalescent home, and 4) denounced the city council's plans to replace a 50-year-old public library. The News's editorials on the library issue finally jolted civic leaders into counterattacking with a community-wide drive to put over an $880,000 library...