Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committeeman, should have been representing the whole party instead of one candidate-but mostly because his candidate did so badly. ¶ Lest fidgety Republican campaign contributors ditch Knowland as a lost cause, Vice President Richard M. Nixon passed the word that he would help raise money at G.O.P. fund-raising dinners only on the promise that all the money collected would go into a united Republican campaign kitty...
...theater since 1940. used for three years as a servicemen's bowling alley, the 4,200-seat house is now part of Roosevelt University, is empty, flaking and slowly deteriorating. Status: good chance of survival, with nearly every top U.S. architect, museum director and historian enrolled in a fund-raising and rehabilitation campaign...
...Jacobsson, managing director, International Monetary Fund. . LL.D...
...Francisco") Caen tried to peddle the services of a private eye. For five days last week, from midafternoon to midnight, these and a hundred other prominent San Franciscans acted as volunteer auctioneers for some 5,000 items donated by San Francisco merchants or individuals. Occasion: the fourth annual fund-raising auction for San Francisco's KQED-TV, the community-owned educational television station...
KQED, one of the U.S.'s most dignified stations (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), is dependent on such undignified auctions and fund drives for almost a third of its $360,000 yearly expenditures. The major slice of its income (about $155,000) comes from the sale of its filmed programs, which are sold to Ann Arbor's Educational Television & Radio Center for nationwide distribution to ETV stations. Most impressive KQED films: Sing Hi, Sing Lo, a history of the U.S. told through folklore and folk song; a series on Japanese brush painting taught by Artist Takahike Mikami: Fallout...