Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the voting started, Wiley barely led the field of six on jthe first ballot. By the second, he had fallen behind Representative Glenn R. Davis, 41, a toothpaste-smile isolationist, who had been sweet-talked into running and promised a $150,000 campaign fund. When the third ballot started, Wiley did not even wait for the result. With tears in his eyes, he and his British-born wife made their way quietly through the crowd and out the door. For Alex Wiley, it was a bitter pill -administered on his 72nd birthday...
Preparing the Future. For months many girls in Shinjuku and Kamedo have contributed some 100 yen daily out of their earnings to establish a private rehabilitation fund against the gloomy day that dawned last week, but many another had no intention of quitting her calling. For the enterprising individual, there was still future enough in such establishments as Tokyo's New Opal Hotel, which runs a daily ad in English-language Tokyo papers: "Here is the place you pay only 800 yen with your partner to stay overnight including one free drink. Each room with double-sized...
...Roosevelt doggedly ignored the ever louder suspicion, held by the press and even the New York police, that Client Trujillo was responsible for kidnaping Galindez. "I never heard of Galindez!" Roosevelt complained on the night of April 12, when anti-Trujillo exiles in Manhattan threatened to picket a Democratic fund-raising dinner for which he was toastmaster.* In the Dominican Republic, Dictator Trujillo's kept press played up Frank Roosevelt so favorably as to suggest that Trujillo wanted association with a famed liberal name at least as much as legal advice...
Furthermore, the Dental School faculty served gratis until 1929. A bequest of Charles A. Brackett D.M.D. '73, who taught without pay at the School for half a century, and a gift of John T. Morse, Jr. '60 led to the endowment fund which began to pay the institution's teachers in that year. Serious dental study is plainly, then, a recent development, but the field's trend, as shown by Eliot's words and climaxed by Conant's action, is no sudden offshoot. It grew with dentistry...
...year's end Barbara was stunned to learn that Rancho del Monte had turned a profit of $4.98. "Do we take that four ninety-eight profit and plow it into a fund for our old age?" she asked. "We do not," Bill said stanchly. "We put every penny of it back into the ranch." After a hectic visit to New York which showed her just what she was not missing. Barbara agreed...