Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fund. Though this huge sum will not have to be budgeted until 1929, a fund from which it may be drawn was proposed, last week, by Chancellor Churchill as a feature of his new Budget. He destined for this fiscal nest egg the budgetary surplus for the year just past, amounting to ?4,250,000. Further to swell the fund, Mr. Churchill established last week, to take effect at once, an increased tax of four pence per gallon on automotive gasoline and oils-a tax which he declared will bring in ?14,404,000 ($70,000,000) this year...
...Italian governments, all of which despatched war vessels with supplies for the 10,000 Corinthians who are now homeless, shelterless. Swifter still came the succor of the American Near East Relief, which maintains agents and nurses permanently in Greece. Meanwhile rich Athenians contributed generously and rapidly to a relief fund established by Old Paul Koun-douriotis, the revered admiral who is President of Greece because he alone is trusted as a man of honor-much as Germans trust Old Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg...
...memory of Harvard's first president, Henry Dunster, a fund is being raised for the erection of a new court, at Magdalene College, Cambridge...
...exhibit are five Sargents, including "In the Tyrol", the gift of Sir Joseph Duveen: "A Tomb at Toledo", purchased from the Louise E. Betteus Fund; and "Camping near Lake O'Hara", the gift of the friends of the Fogg Museum. Sargent's oil painting "Lake O'Hara" is also given...
...Putnam's object in establishing a fund for intercollegiate contests of a purely academic nature was twofold: to foster general interest in scholarship, and to enable the student to demonstrate his loyalty to his college through scholastic attainments. Desire to gain a place among the college's intellectual representatives might well stimulate the average undergraduate to scholastic endeavor, but it would scarcely serve as an added incentive to do well on the examination itself to any but the ten picked men if their names were announced before the event. Under the present Harvard plan, however, at least every student...