Word: funded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presidential boom for Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg was on. The Detroit News published an excited editorial entitled: "Vandenberg: Man of the Hour!" Some 700 Michigan Republicans gathered at the swank Detroit Athletic Club to eat squab, lay plans for raising a $950,000 campaign fund, and to extol the virtues of Van. Cried Governor Kim Sigler: "Any influence I have will be used to convince the convention . . . that he will be a sure winner...
...International Children's Emergency Fund was doing what it could to help Pessel herself, but there were millions like her for whom it could do nothing. Broadcast through many of the world's radio stations, a recorded wail from little Pessel's scarred lungs was sounding last week, an anguished plea for help to these others...
Other gifts include a $50,000 trust fund "for the benefit of the people of North Haven, Maine, in recognition of the friendship shown to me for 30 summered." Lamont also bequeathed $5,000 to both the Harvard and University Clubs of New York...
From the time of his graduation in June, 1892, to his death last Monday, he maintained strong ties with the University both in official and unofficial capacities. He served two terms on the Board of Overseers, was co-chairman of the Executive Committee of the Endowment Fund, and served as a member of Overseers visiting committees...
...whole thing had served to dash into British and French faces the fact that western European union (see above) had historic economic obstacles. In Washington, the International Monetary Fund (which must approve major currency devaluations) officially disapproved of the French action after an eight-day debate. "Sometimes," said wizened Camille Gutt of Belgium, Fund Managing Director, "we stayed up all night. Sometimes we didn't eat. It was not pleasant...