Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hammers ring all day, all week, resting only on the Sabbath. For there, to the greater glory of God, men are buiding a Cathedral, named after the city in which it stands. A year ago, the foundations were finished; and it was seen that they were good. A fund of $10,000,000 is being raised to complete the Cathedral. Money comes in; new contracts are let. It is prophesied that the sound of the hammer will not cease for five years in Washington, at the end of which time the house will be builded. Last week, scaffolding was knocked...
...during the first eleven months of this year they have established a new high record of $1,289,000,000 for such loans. Undoubtedly, as the country grows, it is natural for local governmental indebtedness- and consequently local taxes from which interest and sinking fund service on loans come-to increase. Yet the recent increase has been out of all proportion to the growth of the country or its genuine local needs. The explanation obviously lies in the eagerness with wealthy investors have purchased nontaxable securities...
...independence idea and, with a true gift for the dramatic, dress it in a thousand garbs and adorn it with a thousand gestures. Now they squabble with the Governor General; now they send themselves a-junketing to Washington; always they play with the 1,000,000 peso "Independence Fund" voted annually by the legislature, from which they replenish their pockets without rendering account. This year for Christmas they thought they would dramatize independence in a new yuletide comedy for their electorate. So they gathered their best minds together and with pen, ink and paper indicted a letter to the League...
...Will H. Hays, cinema tsar, pleaded for $15,000,000 that preachers might be adequately pensioned. Representing a laymen's committee on the fund, he said that U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon had accepted fiscal stewardship of the fund of the Presbyteries...
...came about that some good dames who "will never let a Hearst paper come into the house," found themselves, upon reaching home and examining their doll boxes, about to work for the New York American's Christmas and Relief Fund, Inc. So also it was that the poor of Manhattan thanked the American for more, much more, than the American was giving...