Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Secretary Wilson, after putting up his sturdiest fight yet for his defense budget, pointedly advised $100-a-plate guests at a Republican fund-raising dinner in Milwaukee to look over their shoulders and see if the voters were still there with them. "As a tip in this regard," he said, "I would like to remind you of the great popular vote that President Eisenhower received...
Emergency Aid. In the fire-alarm crises in Iran. Guatemala, Viet Nam, and Jordan, the U.S. used the technique of military-economic aid repeatedly and effectively to defeat Communist attempts to take over whole nations by subversion. Drawing the moral, Ike now wants a special emergency fund of $300 million to enable the U.S. to act swiftly and flexibly in whatever new crises come...
...program offers long-term aid on a loan basis to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and Africa to help provide the visible signs of economic progress that their peoples are learning to expect and demand. The method of providing capital is entirely new: creation of a Development Loan Fund, to replace former handout-style grants, through which the U.S. will be able to channel $500 million in fiscal 1958 and $750 million in both fiscal 1959 and 1960 into basic foreign-growth projects such as roads, dams, utilities, "the sinews of economic strength...
Charles Steedman '57, of Winthrop House and Providence has won the De-Lancey K. Jay Prize for his senior honors thesis in History--Lord Northcliffe: A Journalist in Politics, 1914-1918." The prize is the income from the fund...
Peter N. Stearns '57, of Eliot House and Urbana, I11., has been awarded the Philip Washburne Prize for his History honors thesis--"God and Liberty: The Ideas and Activities of the Avenier Movement." The prize is the income from the fund...