Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finance Minister Doumer proposes to meet all the budget charges, the immediate needs of the Treasury, repayment of Bank of France advances and the creation of a sinking fund for amortization of the floating debt by the following measures...
Connoisseurs of philanthropy recalled Mr. Carnegie's often expressed reasons for creating his Hero Fund: "I believe that it take-much more heroism to save life than to take it. ... Unfortunately most of the monuments of the world are to somebody who has killed a lot of his fellow men. . . . I do not expect to create a race of heroes by offering prizes. I know well that the heroic action is impulsive. . . . But I have all along felt that heroes and their dependents should be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism." Observers noted that no pecuniary cares have...
...interest in the Metropolitan beyond a perfunctory $10-per-annum subscription such as most prominent Manhattanites instruct their secretaries to renew automatically. Few of the trustees knew him and none intimately. He did not collect works of art privately. Yet without requesting that his money be called "The Munsey Fund" or assigning ends to which it was to be applied, he went down as leader of the following list of donors discoverable on the Metropolitan's ledgers...
...Dartmouth Alumni six will meet a team composed of former University Hockey stars, headed by George Owen '23, in a contest at the Boston Arena, January 14, for the benefit of the Ellis Memorial Fund...
Every year recently, there has been discussion over authorizing the Student Friendship Fund, a permanent nationwide institution, to carry on operations for a drive among Harvard students. The proceeds collected from American colleges are sent to Europe to help maintain poor students and poverty-stricken professors there. So far the Council has authorized collections for this fund at the University, and a favorable decision this year is expected...