Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson based his charge on a "report" from an unidentified friend and a column by United Feature Syndicate's pro-Stevenson Doris Fleeson. Columnist Fleeson wrote that Radio-TV Personality John R. (Tex) McCrary, an Eisenhower booster in 1952, had "boasted" about G.O.P. fund-raising for Estes Kefauver. In Manhattan Tex McCrary explained that he had merely commented at a private dinner: "I hear some Republicans helped Kefauver in Minnesota." Tut-tutted Kefauver: "Mr. Stevenson, of course, knows nothing of any Republican money. Apparently he is building up alibi...
Rocky Reform. With the end of their oldest plague, all new things have become possible for the proud, primitive islanders. Italy's ambitious, $2 billion Cassa del Mezzogiorno (Fund for the South) is now transforming the rocky, scrub-covered face of Sardinia. Already the fund's associated agencies have taken over a third of the island's arable land from large holders and passed it out to peasants in 15-acre plots. By draining the old malarial swamps, the agencies are making another 185,000 acres of cropland for small holders. But the most ambitious project...
...undreamed of in the old days when most scratched out a lean living by herding (or stealing) sheep in the mountains by winter, hoeing a few acres in summer in the lowlands. After 20 centuries, Sardinia may once again win a name as Rome's granary. Already the fund's crewcut, sports-jacketed young Italian engineers are saying that after the Flumendosa Valley is remade, underpopulated Sardinia may be able to absorb thousands of Italy's mainland unemployed...
...Bright "C" students can now win Harvard scholarships that once were reserved for "A" and "B" students only, whether bright or not. Two of the university's graduates, Robert and Arnold Hoffman, have established a $5,000 fund for "needy students who do not quite make scholarship grade." The Hoffmans said: "We felt that very often a student who is not too outstanding in college may make good in later life...
David H. Davis 2G won the George Arthur Knight prize and income from the fund for his string quartet. Frederic A. Rzewski '58 received honorable mention in the competition...