Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attorney in the country today") were four experienced trial lawyers (including Nashville's Thomas Page Gore, a first cousin to Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore). The attorneys general of Louisiana and Texas sent word that they would attend the trial themselves or have representatives there. Fund-raising drives for the defense were organized in Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Georgia. The issue to be fought out in Knoxville: Can the federal judiciary properly invoke its broad contempt-of-court powers to enforce the Supreme Court's desegregation decision...
...drive to move Sargent to Boston closer to the "mother institution" is a part of B.U. President Robert C Case's multi-million-dollar fund drive. Officials of Boston University, however, did not confirm the report that the move across the river would take place...
When James became the University's first professor of Psychology in 1889, he began a fund drive to finance a more formal laboratory for psychological research. By 1891 he had secured $4300 for equipping the top floor of Dane Hall (since replaced by Lehman Hall) which the University had turned over to him for his work in Psychology...
...well known that B.U. has wanted to bring Sargent closer to the main "campus" for the last few years, with money as the main factor working against the transfer. But in early November, B.U. President Harold C. Case announced the start of a large multi-million dollar fund raising drive, similar to Harvard's "Program for Harvard College." With money from this drive, B.U. will be able to move Sargent...
Located some 14 miles north of West Palm Beach, Salhaven was named after U.I.U. President Sal B. Hoffmann, who has spent $2,500,000 of his union's welfare-fund profits to build a 634-acre community that will eventually cost $5,000,000, house 500 union members and their families in 240 air-conditioned, completely furnished cottages and ten apartment lodges. Since Salhaven's residents will live primarily on their union pensions and social-security checks, they will have to pay only $50 a month rent for a cottage with one bedroom, $12 more for each additional...