Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former years, it has been the practice of the University to contribute $1,000 to the general fund but it is felt that such an expense is unjustified in a year when it has been found necessary to withdraw support from some of this regular athletic program. Hoping to obtain the money through the graduates, the H. A. A. decided to make the appeal on the envelopes...
...Insider was Robert Maestri, Louisiana Conservation Commissioner. Between him and the Kingfish existed complete understanding and a private joke. When Long was elected Governor in 1928 a New Orleans publisher collected a fund to buy him a set of table silver. Mr. Maestri's check, however, was righteously returned because nice people looked askance at the source of his family's fortune. Thereupon Mr. Maestri purchased a $2,500 emerald & diamond scarf pin for the Governor which the Governor wore and laughed about all over the State...
Realization that the golden times may be over spurs educators to get their hands on what they can now. One rich prize for which many have been angling is the $30,000,000 Rackham Fund of Detroit. University of Michigan had the inside track because the late Horace H. Rackham directed his trustees to favor Michigan charity and education. Michigan was worried when the Rackham Trustees went outside the State to bestow $50,000 on the Warm Springs Foundation. But last week these same trustees dutifully endowed the home University with $5,000,000 to build up its graduate school...
...dividends, he sold out to Henry & Edsel Ford for $12,500,000. Taken aback by his fortune, Lawyer Rackham did his best to ignore it, living modestly, carrying on his practice, shunning publicity. His philanthropic career almost ended in a fit of hysteria when the Detroit Community Fund revealed him as the donor of $20,000. Later, in strictest secrecy, he financed archeological expeditions for the University of Michigan...
...administrator of Groton's million dollar endowment fund, Dr. Peabody, should write his distinguished pupil, Franklin Roosevelt, for some ERA money. If he were granted an income of $500, he might spare some of his boys the humiliation which they experience when they are unable to contribute towards Student Council scholarships, class expenses, and PBH charity work...