Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launch "a fund-raising campaign for the contraction of Harvard University" with the desired quota set at a round 100,000 dollars, with the stipulation that if this fund reaches its quota before that of President Pusey, it shall be declared the winner and applied as the Society has seen fit, that...
...strength is considerable. Iowa-born Ziffren, 43, is a political Johnny-come-lately who concentrated on practicing and teaching tax law around Chicago after graduation from Northwestern University. Moving to Los Angeles in 1943, he dipped a toe in the political pool by campaign fund raising. In 1950 he helped stage Helen Gahagan Douglas' unsuccessful battle against Dick Nixon for the U.S. Senate. Ziffren was named national committeeman in 1953, immediately set about reorganizing California's clanking party machinery, is given credit for the Democrats' 1956 gains in Congress (two) and the state legislature (two senate seats...
...minute film of one of the most widely staged and widely publicized benefits in show-business history. The subject: Kaye's bone-bruising, tongue-twisting, 35,000-mile junket around most of the world on behalf of the nonpolitical United Nations Children's Fund. The stars: Danny Kaye in a multitude of piquant, nimble versions, and hundreds of the 40 million underprivileged children who have received milk, shoes and medical aid from UNICEF. The show was filmed by two CBS-TV camera crews over a seven-week tour of three continents and brilliantly edited (from...
Goheen's, according to one faculty member, is a "Princeton man, do or die," but he's not "the Old Grad type." The new president, Princeton's youngest since 1761, will consider the club issue in the light of how they serve the university, not how they stimulate alumni fund raising. "He's a non-aristocratic person, and he's simply a darn nice guy," a friend said last night...
Fortunately for Conant, back in 1934, an occasion for popularizing and for raising money for his new idea was approaching--the 1936 Tercentenary Celebration. He was shortly to announce the formation of a Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund one of the purposes of which was to raise money for university professorships...