Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basis for estimating the probable yield from a universal transactions tax, Dr. Townsend finally turned on his questioners, expressed his opinion of all such petty quibblings in a sharp bleat: "Oh, why all this nonsense?" Townsendgrams & Fraud. Third morning's questioning involved another Townsend appeal for funds. In January 1935 four men went to Washington to lobby the Townsend Plan through Congress. To pay their expenses Townsendites were asked to contribute to a special Congressional Action Fund, supplied $23,400. Four months later the four lobbyists quit their work, left Washington, having spent only...
Asked to explain a recent appeal in the Townsend Weekly for a "defense fund" to be placed at his personal disposal on the "very great possibility" that the House investigating committee would impound OARP's funds, Dr. Townsend admitted after persistent questioning that he knew the committee had no power to impound his organization's funds...
...their State's WPA patronage. Last year Senator Bilbo used it, on the expiration of Governor Conner's term, to get his friend Hugh White elected Governor. When Governor White gave Pat Harrison credit for getting big Federal appropriations for Mississippi, including a $42,000,000 highway fund, the Senior Senator stood up before a joint session of the Legislature, shared the credit with Senator Bilbo and Mississippi's Representatives. Thus all went well until Senator Bilbo was well entrenched. Then last January President Roosevelt nominated Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes, a son-in-law of Pat Harrison...
Biggest Library Fund...
...Association contributes the biggest fund of any received for the maintenence and growth of the Chemical Laboratory library of over 22,000 volumes, and maintains an Employment Committee, headed by Grinnell Jones, professor of Chemistry, which places graduate Harvard chemists in positions all over the country...