Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never before had a Nizam so bedecked a bride and groom, and in a burst of generosity made a cash grant of $21 a month to two local orphanages. The Nizam also promised to build the couple a palace next to his own, and settled on them a trust fund of undisclosed size-something he did not do for any of the five other begum daughters he has married...
...Haydee Santamaria, 31, now the wife of Education Minister Armando Hart, joined the uprising after Batista's jailers killed her rebel fiance and brother. In Castro's casual headquarters she was a cook one moment, an adviser the next, finally went to the U.S. as contact and fund raiser. Dr. Isabel Rojas, 32, commanded the only organized women fighters-a headquarters guard company that participated in a few easy ambushes in the war's final days. Protected closely by strike forces of guerrillas, her girls suffered only a few flesh wounds...
...freed the artificially pegged peso to find its true value, discarded much red tape that distorted and paralyzed Argentina's foreign trade. A fortnight ago, to help shore up the peso and make the economy more productive, U.S. Government and private banks, as well as the International Monetary Fund, announced a $329 million loan to Argentina. The loan soothed many Argentines, who tend to blame Frondizi for the discomforts of living within their means, but the program is not popular and enforcing it will take all of Frondizi's skill...
Doing his bit to whoop the boys up for the annual damn-the-Democrats exercises at Lincoln's Birthday fund-raising ceremonies. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn polled G.O.P. Senators on how many philippics they could unload at party rallies this year, learned to his mild horror that a bipartisan clerk had mailed one query astray. Bemused recipient of the inadvertent, fire-eating "Dear Frank" appeal: Utah's new Democrat Frank E. Moss...
...Fund-raising in Boston and hiring of artists in New York, as well as summer patronage are "three vital ways" in which the Wellesley organization will have to compete with "state-endorsed competition," their statement said...