Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flower Fund. Last week, at 65, Chicago-born Pete Akers gave up the crusades and retired from the newspaper business. For Chicagoans, it was the end of a tumultuous 45-year career of the man who has been described as having the "mind of a politician, the heart of a social worker and the body [5 ft. 8½ in., 199 lbs.] of a medieval bishop...
...tabloid Sun-Times (circ. 534,000) did not become a great paper under Akers, but it did become a dedicated one; Akers encouraged depth reporting in such areas as education and religion, before most other dailies got around to it. Among his expose triumphs, he uncovered a "flower fund" in the books of a Cook County treasurer who was running for governor. When the Sun-Times showed that the fund was an assessment on county employees for campaign contributions, the treasurer withdrew from the race. In 1952, after the Kefauver crime-investigating committee allowed a candidate for Cook County sheriff...
Others have to wait for lower places in the line of march. Nonentities like "United States Senators and Representatives in Congress" are twentieth in the order of precedence, following "Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins and the Loan Fund" and "The Ministers of the Six Towns of the Bay Colony...
...numbness wore off, the University and the Kennedy family announced the fund-raising drive for the Kennedy Library, and members of the Class of 1965 ran the national student drive to raise money for the library. The Memorial Drive underpasses became the issue of the day. If nothing else, the sycamores provided a focus for the spring riot; and the MDC police cooperated by bringing out their police dogs, and the riot lasted until...
...last large pocket of Simba territory. But in all, it had cost the lives of at least 52 hostages, and 42 others had vanished with the Simbas into the jungle. "I'm very, very sorry," said Premier Moise Tshombe, who was in the middle of a fund-raising tour of Europe, "but we did all we could...