Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lately painted President and Mrs. Coolidge), presented to the New York Chamber of Commerce, to hang in company with those of his predecessors-including great Alexander Hamilton, clever Albert Gallatin, honest John Sherman. Mr. Speyer spoke in Manhattan, in behalf of 500 Chambermen subscribers to a Mellon portrait fund...
...Strikers. The sensation of the week was the rejection by the British Trade Union Council of a "strike fund" check for 250,000 gold rubles ($125,000) despatched to it by the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. At Amsterdam, however, the Netherlands Trade Union Congress voted 60,000 gulden ($24,250) for the same purpose, with every prospect of its being most gratefully accepted, and in France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Japan, Mexico, labor organizations manifested their sympathy for the British strikers by commendatory votes, scattered strikes, monetary contributions, or by taking steps to hamper essential exports to Britain...
...farm relief problem centres on two bills. The Tincher bill (supported by the Administration) carries $100,000,000 to be lent as a revolving fund to farmers' cooperatives to aid them in solving their crop surplus problems. The Haugen bill (opposed by the Administration, demanded by many farm interests), carries a fund of $375,000,000, which contemplates Government purchase of farm surpluses in emergency to maintain domestic prices, and will impose (after two years) a tax on farm products to provide for losses in the use of the fund...
...farmers' demand were not insistent, it is doubtful whether the Administration would ever have favored the Tincher bill, because there is some doubt whether the revolving fund will revolve or will merely fritter away into frozen loans. Many farmers do not want their co-operatives to be saddled with these loans, much preferring a gift of $375,000,000 at once, and then a division of any losses above that by means of the tax against all producers...
Research. John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week gave $125,000 unconditionally toward the $1,000,000 endowment fund of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Also he gave $10,000 to help defray expenses of U. S. and European cancer specialists at a cancer congress next September at Lake Mohonk...