Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They laid Frank Bartlette Willis to rest in Delaware, Ohio, the town he had set out to make as famed as Marion. Congressmen and captains of industry attended the funeral. A Willis memorial fund was begun. Messages of condolence continued pouring in on Mrs. Willis, especially long ones from her dead husband's colleagues in the Senate. No message moved her more than a Senate message which came, not from a Senator, but from Richard L. ("Deacon") Riedel, a religiously-inclined boy commonly recognized in the Senate wing of the Capitol as Senator Willis' favorite Senate page...
...University "until such time as my good name is cleared before the world." The Albany district attorney decided that the Governor's investigator's findings should be waived, dropped, forgotten. The findings, which he called "fantastic," charged that Mrs. Knapp, in administering a $1,200,000 census fund, had given sinecures to her relatives, forged endorsements on checks, falsified her expense accounts, obtained false certifications from a notary public, mishandled some...
...emergency fund of $5,000,000 for immediate control or rescue work on Mississippi tributaries between Cairo and the Gulf...
...Joseph has now been appointed, said Prime Minister Ferguson, to administer a fund of $2,000,000 recently created to further industrial research in Canada by the Dominion Government and the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, each of which contributed...
...week-economy of operation. Openly declared last week were these specific reasons: "The establishment of an orchestra with a sound financial backing that will guarantee the continuance of the musical traditions of the two societies. "By bringing the friends of both societies into a single organization, to create a fund for the pensioning of superannuated members of the orchestra, and a sick and death benefit fund. "To undertake the erection of a new hall that will serve as a suitable and permanent home for the new orchestra. "To enlarge the educational work of the society by making available to musical...