Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twinkling Tourist Harry S. Truman volunteered that he had left his galoshes back in Independence, likely would not take his traditional morning walks along the capital's slush-puddled thoroughfares. Along with several score top-level Democrats, Truman was on hand for four days of meetings, lunches and fund-raisings that would kick off the Democrats' 1958 congressional campaign. As the opening whistle blew and the charges flew, it quickly became evident that Harry's galoshes were almost the only weapons that cocky Democrats had not moved in to toss at the dawdling G.O.P...
While commuter-country congregations are busy fund-raising for so-called plant expansion, their city cousins are trying to figure out how to use the plants they have. Sunday after Sunday, in thousands of soot-stained city churches, preachers look down on a mere scattering of worshipers: some big-city churches in the East report losing as many as 1,000 members a year. Last week 1,153 Methodist ministers and laymen gathered in Washington for a conference on the problem under the title, "Winning the Changing City for the Changeless Christ...
...deference to the view of Harry Truman that the Missouri Waltz is "as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned," the Democratic National Committee will omit the Waltz from the program of a fund-raising banquet that Truman is to attend in Washington this week...
...money to set up a studio near the Berkeley campus of the University of California, but after 15 months on the air he had so few subscribers that he had to close down. Berkeley citizens called a mass meeting, raised $2,300 on the spot, and enlisted 250 volunteer fund raisers. A radio manufacturer donated a $12,000 transmitter, listeners donated $30,000. the Fund for Adult Education plunked down $150,000 and KPFA was in business again...
...Though $65 million in college scholarships is available each year, said the National Youth Scholarship Fund, some of the money will go to some rather special people. Examples: Pembroke has a scholarship for a girl who does not smoke, Yale has $1,000 for a boy named DeForest, Princeton has a scholarship for an Eagle Scout and Harvard has funds for boys with the name Anderson, Baxendale, Borden, Bright, Downer, Haven, Murphy or Pennoyer-and also for an lowan, preferably living somewhere along the Burlington. Among the lowan takers: Nathan Pusey of Council Bluffs...