Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called "The National Art Gallery." He proposed the erection of a gallery on Washington's Mall, on plans for which he had set Architect John Russell Pope working a year ago. For constructing the gallery, Mr. Mellon offered the sum of $9,000,000, promised an endowment fund for maintaining a staff and providing for new acquisitions. Congress would have to appropriate funds for the building's upkeep, he said...
...Furthermore, your offer of an adequate building and an endowment fund means permanence in this changing world...
Until last week Mrs.Millicent Hearst's chief medical philanthropies had been her Free Milk Fund for Babies Inc., which she finances by means of prize fights, tennis tournaments and indoor rodeos; an annual Christmas morning cinema for crippled Manhattan children, which she failed to hold last week; and the New York Infirmary for Women & Children, to which she has long contributed handsomely...
...orchestra at Tel Aviv, their brave new cultural capital, and resigned his Vienna teaching post to do so. Already in Palestine, or easily available all over Europe, were scores of refugee Jewish musicians. It was easy to get, as permanent administrators of the new orchestra's trust fund, such influential Jews as Financier Israel Sieff of London, Belgian Industrialist Dannie Heineman. Palestine's Lieut. Col. Frederick Hermann Kisch. Palestine's top-notch lawyer, Solomon Horowitz. Dr. Albert Einstein took the honorary presidency of the U. S. branch of the organization...
...Securities' Groves helped put through a dazzling recapitalization plan which substituted 382,300 shares of $1 par common stock for 382,300 shares outstanding at a declared value of $15 a share, eliminated back dividends amounting to $52.50 a share on 63,004 shares of preferred, erased sinking fund arrears of some $882,000. Meanwhile Certainteed began to nose slowly upward on the building wave, made a profit of $131,000 for the third quarter. To accelerate this rise by putting Montgomery Ward efficiency into Certainteed will be President Baumhogger...