Word: funded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once a Year. Recognizing the importance of the issue, a number of interested bystanders-among them the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, the Justice Department, and a group of 30 of the nation's top law firms-filed briefs in Sobol's support. They were also speaking for all the lonely Negroes in remote Southern jailhouses, the people for whom the presence of lawyers like Sobol has often meant the difference between life and death. Early in the civil rights movement, Southern lawyers tacitly accepted visiting lawyers. Few local white lawyers wanted to defend Negroes anyway...
Foreclosed Mortgage. The public scandal was the immediate reason for Ruopp's dismissal, but the trustees were also worried, justifiably, about Franconia's precarious financial situation. Although an imaginative educator, Ruopp was unimpressive as a fund raiser. The school was running $100,000 per year in the red on an operating budget of $1,000,000. Insurance companies canceled their policies on the college's buildings, and the banks holding its mortgage threatened to foreclose...
Last week Whitten was in New York speaking with members of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). He hoped UNICEF would take over full sponsorship of the volunteers for Nigeria-Biafra program...
...important aspect of the conference, Horstman says, is the student fund-raising job. Appeals have gone out to local and national business firms, philanthropic foundations, and government. Horstman refers to these donations as "representing public endorsement of student-initiated educational and social action...
Though the strikers and management had worked out most of the fine print for a new contract by week's end, policyholders were still mailing in their premiums, and the agents, who have no strike fund, were still living off past commissions. In many cases, this was no particular hardship, since a hard working and fortunate agent can make $100,000 a year...