Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second Chicago ward?" The Negro: "I am treasurer; 1 am chairman; I keep the books; I appoint and dismiss all officers; I am the second ward." Edward H. Wright, colored member of the Illinois Commerce Commission, scorned the U. S. Senate Committee sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July 26) ; he gave them no information on fund disposal. Others did, last week, principally Samuel Insull, greatest of midwest utility potentates. Mr. Insull's competitor, in a comparatively smaller way is Senator W. B. McKinley, recently defeated in the Republican primaries...
...forts to save the Belgian franc by unanimously ratifying the bill turn- ing the state railways over to a National Railway Co. (TIME, July 26). The proceeds from the sale of this company's preferred stock will be used as the nucleus of a franc-saving fund...
...private monopoly, which will issue 3,000,000 preferred shares at 500 francs each, the state to retain possession of the common stock. 2) The sums thus raised, together with those realized from heavier taxes, drastic state economies and national lotteries, to be employed as a vast franc-stabilizing fund. 3) Exchange operations, especially the sale of Belgian francs to be supervised by the state and speculation discouraged. 4) White flour to be baked only with a large proportion of coarser grain products and the sale of nonessential foodstuffs and luxuries to be restricted...
...Sinking fund, debt retirement...
...well-earned salary for two years of unremittent labor. Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary declared himself unable to find words in which to praise fitly such generosity from a man known to be far from rich. Straightway the cheque was deposited as "The Jeremiah Smith Hungarian Scholarship Fund." Every year two Hungarian students will travel memorially to the U. S. for twelve months' study...