Word: funds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slack year for national heroes was 1929. The public prints lacked new and spectacular performers to make the public hero-conscious. But the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, only U. S. hero-rewarding organization except the Government, found no dearth of candidates. Last week it recognized 51 acts of heroism, more than twice last year's number...
About to leave for Cuba as U. S. Ambassador, Harry Frank Guggenheim went and had a long talk with his father, Daniel Guggenheim about the latter's Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics which the former has been administering. They discussed the things they had done for aeronautics, the things they wanted to do. A half-million dollars more, they decided, would take care of the final odds & ends of their cultural-industrial project. Then they could consider their self-imposed job done. Dec. 31 this year would be a good day to mark the Fund...
Harding, who was nominated by the trustees of the fund, is the first substitute end on the University eleven, and has started several games this year in the absence of the injured J. G. Douglas '30. He has also maintained a Dean's list average in his studies...
...eminence in the church began when it became apparent that Episcopalian ministers should be pensioned and famed Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts, stepping in where others had failed, raised $9,000,000. Bishop Lawrence's aide in that effort, then secretary, now executive vice president of the Pension Fund of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was and is substantial, trim-trotting Monell Sayre...
...Sayre. Seven years after leaving Harvard in 1898, he was Pension Expert of the Carnegie Foundation. Now he is pension adviser to the U. S. Federal Reserve system, to the Church of England, as well as to the Episcopal Church. Present assets of the Protestant Episcopal Church Pension Fund are $25,000,000. Offices are at No. 14 Wall St., Manhattan. Income on the Fund supplies the pension money. To become eligible for pensioning, an Episcopal minister must be 68, retired or disabled. The average pension: $800 per year...