Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scores of politicians, reflecting their constituents' sympathies, appeared at rallies for Israel. Said Dallas Fund Raiser Jack Kravatz: "Our donations are from Jew and non-Jew alike. We've had inquiries from church groups and from people walking in off the street to hand us a check. They have all called themselves friends of Israel who want to know how they can best help...
...quarter-hour. That night in Chicago, another $2.5 million was raised. Next night in Atlanta, $1.1 million more was forthcoming. The pace was so fast that officials often had no idea how much they had collected. In New York, where the United Jewish Appeal set up an Israel Emergency Fund, Executive Vice President Herbert Friedman jotted down a flood of big-money pledges on odd scraps of office memo paper. "This," he said, "is a hell of a way to raise millions of dollars...
...years, Mays, both as President of Moorhead College and as a leading Negro educator in the South, has been influential in raising the standards of predominantly Negro higher educational institutions. He is the President of the United Negro College Fund...
...been an issue between students and their deans or House masters would surprise people at other colleges--particularly Harvard--but it is typical of Radcliffe. In all the College hierarchy, there is no one besides Mrs. Bunting who has any real decision-making power. All questions of housing, admission, fund-raising, social rules, and employment are inevitably pushed into her lap by administrators who are either unsure of their own ability or uncertain of Radcliffe's policies. Unlike other college presidents, Mrs. Bunting has intimate knowledge of the most mundane aspects of the whole operation. It is difficult to imagine...
...Power Elite does C. Wright Mills attempt to probe the arts. He should have tried. The audience which attends these plays constitutes a very palpable elite which, if not synonymous with his own, is at least one aspect of the American power core. According to the Twentieth Century Fund's Performnig Arts: The Economic Dilemma, the national audience for all of the performing arts is less than four per cent of the population, eighteen years of age and older. Although these figures have to be adjusted sightly for the theatre audience alone, the authors (Baumol and Bowen) concluded...