Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faithful and influential friends of the popular Lamson, sales manager of the Stanford University Press, this solution was a ghastly break of circumstantial evidence. They raised a defense fund, printed booklets denouncing the case as justice's greatest miscarriage, laid Mrs. Lamson's death to an accidental fall. After his conviction, Lamson went to the San Quentin Prison condemned row, pounded out his best-selling book, We Who Are About to Die. Trial No. 2, ordered by the State Supreme Court, resulted in a hung jury. Trial No. 3 was adjourned due to an irregularity in the venire...
...charge of research of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and Charles Franklin Kettering, 59, vice president in charge of research of General Motors Corp.; the Franklin medal of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, awarded annually for salient achievements in phys ical science or technology, "without regard to country," from a fund established in 1914 by Utilitarian Samuel Insull...
...Another notable bond offering last week was a $40,000,000 issue of New York Central bonds, proceeds of which, together with $22,900,000 of short-term notes, will be used to fund Central's colossal bank loans (TIME...
...primitive power of this picture. One sees the Jews abandoning ghettoes and launching into robust pioneering, and one forgets that there are still throngs of them in homelessness and persecution. One forgets, that is, until reminded that the picture is produced by Leo Herman for the Palestine Foundation Fund, largely to allow Jews to escape from Germany. If the facts do not substantiate the impression given of a great folk migration, still it is true that the last two decades have seen inspiring fruits of an inspired determination to break away from the sackcloth and ashes...
From a purely practical viewpoint, the number of contributors is encouraging. With governmental taxes on large incomes almost confiscatory, great private institutions like Harvard must lean more and more heavily upon many modest contributors rather than the possessors of great fortunes. Generally considered the Fund has had small beginnings but continues to have a bright future...