Word: funding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Federal loan fund...
...greater share of the money Mr. Hoover sent consisted of the residue of the Belgian relief fund, which by the will of the donors already belonged to the Belgian people...
...paying fixed salaries to the appraisers, they had the City Council vote to pay the appraisers on a percentage basis. Thus, the higher the price fixed by the appraiser on a site, the higher the appraiser's fee. The appraisers, in turn, paid fat sums to the fund with which Thompsonism tried to keep itself in office...
...talk of his brilliant past; he wanted the reporters to get the right angle on physiology and the cloudy future, wherein lay the purpose of his endowment fund. The half million dollars was put in trust in memory of his scientist-son, Charles Francis Brush Jr., who died last year. Its income is "to finance efforts contributing toward the betterment of the human stock and toward the regulation of the increase of population, to the end that children shall be begotten only under conditions which make possible a heritage of mental and physical health, and a favorable environment...
Scientist Brush, concerned about the future, knows that science plays no favorites, preserves some of the weak, unfit, feeble-minded as well as the strong. "General reading and common sense," he says, have made him want to educate people to the evils of too great population increase. His trust fund will be used for research in eugenics, popular enlightenment, regulation of overpopulation. The program of the foundation has not yet taken definite form. Birth control clinics may be the first step...