Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further trying to raise this scholastic standing, Mr. Conant has made plans to create numerous Prize Fellowships for outstanding, young students throughout the country. If the 300th Anniversary Fund is a success, there will be 100 Prize Fellows in each class, 400 in the College. If present standards are kept up, the large majority of these men will be in Group II or above. Their ranks will be swelled by many applicants for Prize Fellowships who are turned down but come to Harvard anyway. This year there are four times as many of such men as Prize Fellows. In other...
...whom he knew as a fellow townsman in Independence, Kans., as a Kansas University fraternity brother, as a fellow oilman. Alf Landon says he has not even seen Harry Sinclair in at least six years, perhaps ten. No one has yet accused Candidate Landon of accumulating a campaign slush fund, a charge usually hurled about this time at any candidate who gets out in front in the race for the Presidential nomination. Last week his Kansas City Campaign Chairman Oscar Stauffer could not "remember offhand" who had supplied the biggest Landon campaign contribution to date...
...Jewish National Fund...
Edward VIII's huge properties as Britain's King were last week pouring income into the British Treasury at the rate of some $6,500,000 a year. Out of this fund the British Government annually pays its King and his family a set sum, under a contract first made by insane George III and regularly renewed by Act of Parliament. Last week the new Civil List for King Edward was submitted to the House of Commons. Smaller than that of his father by $300,000, it totaled only $2,050,000, leaving the Government...
...gold standard is dead and has been relegated for a long period to purgatory. We have no sinking fund except the balance of last year's surplus. We have gradually increased our taxation, and we have dealt with the American debt liability in a manner which no one would have tolerated in the years for which I was responsible. I was the last orthodox Chancellor of the Victorian epoch. . . . I feel I am entitled to ask the House to regard me as the last of the Mohicans...