Word: funding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court was justified in its voiding of many state laws, since the foremost consideration must always be the benefit of the nation as a whole. However, the judicial control over state laws is often costly, for it "stops experimentation at its source and bars needed increase to the fund of social knowledge...
...Chinese Red Cross, ever since China was invaded, has been thankfully accepting from the American Red Cross sums which now total $370,000. Of this $100,000 was appropriated by the American Red Cross from its general fund before the Roosevelt appeal, and another $100,000 was added from the same source early this month. Private donations prior to the appeal amounted to about $50,000. Chairman Davis keeps hearing from U. S. friends of China that, whereas Japan got $10,000,000 after her earthquake, the American Red Cross in the last three decades has sent only about...
...their leaders, he obtained a great range of answers, including: "courage, generosity, modesty, education, an interesting vocabulary, personal cleanliness, clever gambling, the ability to 'con' (fool) officials, a reputation for holding liquor, possession of money ... a large body of knowledge about a particular technique of crime, a fund of vulgar jokes or songs, the possession of attitudes against the judiciary, the prison administration, the parole board and God, demonstrable sophistication in female companionship as evidenced by suggestive letters, the dignity and poise that come to some men after long years of prison life, participation in a spectacular crime...
...Harry Davison on their knowledge of Richard Whitney's failure. Called to the stand meanwhile was Dick Whitney's predecessor as president of the Exchange, Edward H. H. Simmons, who testified that he knew last November that Dick Whitney had been using the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund improperly but had not reported it to his fellow Exchange governors because George Whitney made good the deficit. Asked if he considered this the full measure of his duty, he remarked: "It is easy to see now that one's error in judgment might be criticized. But knowing Richard Whitney...
...York Central applied to the ICC for permission to pledge certain securities with New York banks as collateral for a loan of $20,000,000 "for corporate purposes, including the maintenance of adequate working fund...