Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tortured interpretation of an archaic ruling that classified hospitals primarily as charitable institutions. Now the Ohio Supreme Court has overturned the ruling, pointing out that hospitals can get liability insurance like any other business. Hospital trustees need not fear personal liability. ¶ To raise $500,000 for its expansion fund, Burge Hospital in Springfield, Mo. devised a novel come-on: donors may receive half the amount of their subscriptions in hospital services during the next ten years. With two weeks still to go, the campaign had netted $350,000. ¶ Congress sent to the President a bill...
...Confirmed, by 64 (37 Democrats, 27 Republicans) to 22 (6 Democrats, 16 Republicans) President Eisenhower's nomination of liberal Republican Paul Hoffman, Marshall Plan administrator and now chairman of Studebaker-Packard (see BUSINESS) and of the Fund for the Republic, as one of five U.S. delegates to the U.N. General Assembly. The vote was preceded by a bitter battle in which Hoffman was attacked by the little three-New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, Indiana's William Jenner-for having associated with "questionable" characters, praised by Oklahoma's Mike Monroney...
Though the Fund for Adult Education has given Pomona only enough to carry on the program one year, Economist Bond feels that he will have no trouble making the course permanent. At course's end, 22 of the 25 said they would like to come back next year. Said one executive: "The lectures all seem to blend...
...special trust to ensure the tribe's future. The $40,000-a-year income it produces will be used as school and college scholarships for the Jicarillas-boys, girls and adults. The largest tribal trust of its kind, it appropriately bears the name: the Chester E. Faris Educational Fund...
...threatened to resign, crying, "It is a scandal that 65,000 refugees are still living in misery in a Europe bulging with prosperity." But good news reached him just before death struck: the U.S. House of Representatives voted a $2,000,000 appropriation for his 1956-57 emergency refugee fund...