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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President W. K. Jordan of Radcliffe urged all Annex alumnae this week to boost the total of the 70th Anniversary Fund from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Seeks $200,000 Rise In 70th Fund | 1/25/1949 | See Source »

After a long period of winter hibernation, John L. Lewis issued forth to make a proud pronouncement: in 20 months the United Mine Workers' Welfare and Retirement Fund (now fed by a 20? rake-off on every ton of coal mined) had paid out $68 million. Among other things, the fund had put 11,689 retired miners on $100-a-month pensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Man of Peace | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Unlike his fireballing predecessor, the late William S. Knudsen, C.E. hates to make snap decisions, likes to sleep on the hard ones. He seldom relaxes. When he does, he likes to tell stories from his vast fund of them, though his wife Jessie sometimes protests: "Oh Erwin, not that one again!" One of his favorites is about two Englishwomen who were being chauffeur-driven around Detroit in a G.M. limousine. Someone touched a hydraulic window-lift button by mistake, and the glass partition dropped, letting in a blast of air that billowed up the guests' skirts. "Gracious!" cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Twenty-five percent of the residue of his $2,000,000 estate after personal bequests will go to the College's permanent fund, according to the will which Moors drew up last February. The Second National Bank of Boston will act as trustee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A. W. Moors Gives College $100,000 | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge was well known by musicians throughout the world when she set up the Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress in 1925. She had given the Pension Fund of $200,000 to the Chicago Symphony and built the Sprague Music Building at Yale. For seven years she had been more directly involved with music patronage through her annual festivals of chamber music in the Berkshires and commissions to composers...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge--II: Thanks and Honors | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

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