Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lecturer's voice over an equal stretch of time. It seems unfortunate that an adidtional burden should be added to a curriculum already as crowded as that of any college when the purpose of the course is already fulfilled by sports which need only such encouragement as the fund for "humanics" might give them...
...unanimous vote of the Sobranye (Parliament) all taxes were increased 20% to provide a relief fund. In quake areas a curfew bell was rung at 9 p. m., and persons seen prowling near shattered buildings after that hour were presumed to be thieves and fired upon at sight by military sentries. Profiteering in food or building materials was checked by a special law providing that offenders should have their entire property confiscated and should receive publicly 25 lashes...
Jews and gentiles helped each other last week. It began when Horace Button Taft, headmaster of Taft School (Watertown, Conn.), bustled into Cincinnati, to promote a $2,000,000 endowment fund drive for his school. He talked with prominent Cincinnatians, including his halfbrother, Charles Phelps Taft,* editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star. Next day, Brother Charles made a gift of $5,000, not to Brother Horace's school, but to the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati. The day after that, Taft School received a gift of $50,000, not from a gentile, but from Mortimer Leo Schiff, Jewish philanthropist...
...gift of Charles Phelps Taft was the largest yet made by a gentile to the Hebrew Union College, which is raising a $5,000,000 endowment fund. Mr. Schiff also gave $50,000 to the Hebrew Union College, as did Henry Morgenthau, Samuel Untermyer, William (cinema) Fox, Mrs. Felix M. Warburg,† Ludwig Vogelstein; Daniel, Murry, Solomon R. Guggenheim. The estate of the late Louis Heineman contributed $150,000 and Adolph (cinema) Zukor gave...
Devices for securing funds for good works are multifarious and strange. None, certainly, is more strange or ingenious than the dinner which will be given, in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Milwaukee. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, on May 21, in honor of the Rev. Dr. Henry Pereira Mendes, Founder and Honorary President of the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America. At this dinner, carrying to an extreme the fad for inexpensive banqueting which has been previously evidenced, no food whatever will be served. The guests-10,000 will be invited-will nonetheless pay for their good dinner...