Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owned by the Quaker monthly meeting of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., than she kicked up another uproar by refusing to take the Pennsylvania state loyalty oath. Though she was not legally required to take it, there were storms of protest, but her employers decided to keep her on. Then the Fund for the Republic rushed in and offered the meeting $5,000 for its "courageous and effective defense of democratic principles." That put the case of Mary Knowles back in the headlines, and reawakened the Senate's interest...
...Swimming Team and the Harvard and M.I.T. varsity swimming squads combined last night to raise an estimated $1500 for Hungarian relief. About 500 people paid the three dollar admission to see swimmers break three records at the M.I.T. natatorium in an exhibition whose entire gate went to the relief fund...
...Hungarian team, which gained asylum after the end of the 1956 Olympics, swam last night as part of a nation-wide fund raising tour. The water polo team, which defeated Russia in a highly controversial game in the 1956 Olympics, split into two squads and staged first a mock game, then a "winter rugby match," involving heads and feet instead of hands. match," involving heads and feet instead of hands...
...Funds for teachers' salaries were augmented last year by a Ford Foundations grant which supplied $3,320,000. The income from the Ford Fund is being used entirely for the benefit of the faculty and administration, according to Dodds...
...varsity swimmers, Chouteau Dyer, and John Hammond, will swim against Hungarian Olympic stars at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the M.I.T. pool, in a meet staged for the Hungarian Relief Fund. Both are expected to break M.I.T. pool records. An intrasquad match between members of the Hungarian Water Polo team is also on the program...