Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impressionist movements. Now he is fast becoming "good form", among the hidebound conservatives. No museum would dare to be without a Cezanne. In Paris, a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work is on view at Berheim Fils, Place de la Madeleine, with an admission charge to swell the fund for a proposed monument to him. It is encouraging to know that the artist engaged to achieve the monument is no less than the eminent sculptor Aristide Maillol. Said Paul Cezanne, son of the painter, when asked what his father would have thought of having a monument: "I think...
...ungracious to point to one aspect of the situation which it not without significance. There is a growing tendency to contribute money not for the general enlargement of the college as such, but for some special branch, or for some designated graduate school. Of the ten million dollar Harvard fund, the unusual proportion of one-half is set aside for the Graduate School of Business Administration alone; Yale's half-million is for the Law School, and two millions are to be devoted at Princeton to the construction of a new chapel...
Britain was scheduled to make on June 15 her quarterly payment of $68,160,000 for interest and sinking fund charges on her debt to the U. S. Treasury. Including this instalment, Great Britain will have paid back $228,000,000 on her original debt...
...collect a national anti-exclusion campaign fund...
...women' who would destroy it so it could never be used again. I was reported to have shown deep emotion, to have said: 'I would be willing to undertake a monster benefit performance in New York, giving all the proceeds as a nucleus of a fund to eliminate this pernicious scourge of man-kind.' " Jack Dempsey, pugilistic champion of the world: "One W. O. Mc-Geehan, New York sports writer, described my acting in the cinema. Said he: 'Mr. Dempsey does not make love with the brazenness of a Valentino. His love-making is repressed...