Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohio State officials inspected the Uni-versity coal bins, found 700 tons of fuel on hand. They inspected the maintenance fund, found only $505.23. Unless students were to catch pneumonia, they figured, the University would have to close in ten days. For half a year they had been trying vainly to arouse the public to the predicament of a cashless University. A new tack was clearly indicated. Presently in the Ohio State Journal appeared a doleful story pointing out that if the Uni-versity stopped functioning, so would the football team...
...Dowse Institute, sponsor of Friday's meeting, is a lecture fund unconnected with the University and held by a board of trustees...
...Harvard, eligibility for any team is denied a student who "receives ... financial support . . . primarily because of his ability as an athlete." Consequently, when Harvard's Athletic Director William J. Bingham last spring got a letter informing him of a "Bob Haley Fund." his eyes popped. J. Robert Haley of Winthrop, Mass. was captain of the Harvard football team...
Anaconda did not merely postpone the maturity of its debts to some comfortably distant date. A stiff sinking fund provision may well retire the whole issue before it falls due in 1950. In addition to an annual sinking-fund appropriation of $1,000,000, Anaconda will apply 20% of its profits for the next 15 years (with certain limitations) to debt retirement. In boom years when copper profits are fattest, Anaconda will be spending millions buying in its bonds-a shrewd selling point, for sinking-fund buying will provide strong market support at a time when rising interest rates generally...
...Boston Post this morning will say that without Haley's knowledge a "Bob Haley Fund" was collected by a Harvard graduate to finance Haley through College. Haley accepted this because he believed it came to him as payment for a debt this same Harvard graduate owed to Haley's father...