Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nathan Barnert, twice mayor of Paterson. Mr. Barnert began business in Paterson in 1855, four years after it was incorporated as a city.† He prospered; became owner of silk mills; gave away his money-for a hospital, a nurses' home, a home for the aged, a perpetual fund to provide dowries for poor girls. Last week he was still living, 89 years old and a very sick man, whom his daughter was assiduously tending...
...also pointed out that on account of this the organizations supported by the fund will be forced to carry on their activities under severe financial embarrassment unless the rate at which the returns are reaching the Budget Committee increases markedly after the vacation...
Last Saturday 49,000 copies of "The Yard" semiannual publication of the Alumni Fund Council, were sent to graduates of the University. The purpose of this circulation is to collect money from Harvard graduates, which is turned over to the President and Fellows to use as they see most fit. "The Yard" serves as a reminder of the fact that such a thing as the Alumni Fund exists...
...contains news of the University that graduates would not otherwise recive. In 1927, 4,800 men contributed a total sum of $150,00. Compared with 1926 this shows an increase of 20 percent in the amount contributed, and 45 percent in the number of contributed. On January 1 the Fund begins its third year...
...department of moderation was quick? so quick that some observers imagined the bigwigs had known in advance what would happen. To the League came Sebastian Spering Kresge (5¢ & 10¢ stores) of Detroit and Manhattan, long a League admirer, and declared that $500,000 of a 25 million-dollar charity fund which he lately set aside, was at Publicist Cherrington's disposal for 1928. The League had said that it wanted a million for 1928. Mr. Kresge promised to get the rest at once from fellow businessmen. Within 20 minutes of the opening of the League's campaign for "education" funds...