Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gift was made in memory of Macolm H. Holmes '28, a former conductor of the band. The fund drive was first begun at the 1953 Commencement exercises, to honor Holmes' tenth anniversary as conductor. Ten days later Holmes died, and the band has since solicited alumni contributions and given special concerts to reach its $15,000 goal...
...second meeting in a row, the Student Council found itself plagued by indecision as it engaged in intricate parliamentary maneuvers, and finally adjourned after three and a half hours, passing a motion for an activity loan fund by one vote and approving the constitution of the Motorscooter Club...
...Council agreed to establish a "Dean's discretionary fund" of $500, which would be administered by the deans to aid undergraduate organizations to develop "special and worthwhile projects of a non-political nature." The aid is to be given as a loan, repayable to the fund, and the Council executive committee will be notified of any dispositions...
...prop up the slipping Argentine peso (now down to 40 to the dollar at the free rate). Aramburu last week got a $75 million loan from the International Monetary Fund. To draw the dollars. Argentina must post an equivalent sum in pesos (figured at the official rate of 18 to the dollar) and within three to five years must repurchase the pesos with dollars at the same ratio...
...them not only in the U.S. but to 55 foreign nations. Though no moneymaker, it has as impressive a board of advisers as any corporation going-former Senator William Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna M. Rosenberg, Psychologist George Stoddard, President Robert Hutchins of the Fund for the Republic, and Social Scientist Ralph Tyler. Last week it was sporting another big name: Chairman-elect Adlai E. Stevenson...