Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little air fleet touched down on a grass strip at Worthington, just north of the Iowa border, his campaign went well. The weather was mostly bright, the small-town audiences attentive, generous (slipping up to $400 a meeting into collection cans labeled "The Ezra Taft Benson Retirement Fund") and unexpectedly large, e.g., Stevenson drew 2,500 in Montevideo...
...always been very good to me," said Sammy gratefully. "They have even gone out and borrowed money from other people-just to pay me off." Sammy planned to put his fortune into trust for his wife, children and grandchildren. But after that, he announced, it will become a scholarship fund at the University of Missouri School of Journalism...
Urged on by cries of poverty and appeals to charity, higher education is on the march towards bigger and better scholarship programs. Congressmen are urging their fellows to establish a half-billion dollar fund for needy geniuses, corporations are exhorting their stockholders to approve national talent searches, and educators are reminding their former pupils that the alma mater is not yet perfect. In the midst of this nascent crusade, Harvard is fortunately able to assume a somewhat holier-than-thou attitude...
...Committee's plan calls for the University to assume the total cost of faculty pension fund payments. At present, the University pays seven and one-half and each faculty member five per cent of his salary. The new plan would therefore amount to a general salary increase...
...made more realistic by raising the limit on campaign expenses and making the candidate directly responsible for money spent on his behalf. Failure to observe the law should constitute grounds for expulsion from Congress. A revised law should also make it a misdemeanor to contribute to a campaign fund without informing the candidate and receiving his written acceptance of the contribution...