Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tricked up in his party duds, Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver helped raise a few ($3,000) dollars at a Democratic fund-raising party with some hokumy sleight of hand, included in his act a cautious display of rope twirling. Also in the spirit of things was leggy Maurine Neuberger, wife of Oregon's junior Senator Richard Neuberger, who for the party's fashion show slithered out on stage in a figure-hugging one-piece bathing suit, with companion checked beach coat...
...runners from Wall Street underwriters and dealers converged one morning last week at 1 William Street, home of Manhattan's old (108 years) Lehman Brothers. The runners turned over checks for $183,070,380, picked up 15,833,114 shares of Lehman's new One William Street Fund, Inc.-the largest initial financing ever made by an investment company. Then Lehman Senior Partner Robert Lehman turned a check for the total amount over to the Fund president, Dorsey Richardson. Lehman originally planned to sell only 3,000,000 shares. But demand proved so great that Lehman increased...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced the award of the Philip Washburn Prize for 1957-58 to David Ted Roy '59 for his thesis entitled, "Kuo Mo-Jo: The Pre-Marxist Stage." The Prize is the income from the fund...
...first prize, two-thirds of the income from the fund, went to Anita O. Bullard '61 for an essay entitled, "William Blake and the Case against 'Bacon, Newton & Locke...
...note or not. In 1951 he removed one major obstacle to the release of old films to TV by approving the project, provided that the studios 1) rescored the films (i.e., started from scratch with union musicians), and 2) paid 5% of TV profits into the Music Performance Trust Fund. He scored his biggest victory over canned music in 1942 when he pulled his musicians out of all the nation's recording studios and demanded that they get a royalty on every record sold. The record companies held out for 27 months, and President Franklin Roosevelt made a personal...