Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31; by Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); in Reno. Next day she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38, handsome second son of an old Danish family. Independently rich, the Count stands to inherit a trust fund of 3,500,000 kroner ($1,575,000), six castles and estates in Denmark and a vast estate in Upper Silesia, all good dairy producers...
...gold dollars which the U. S. solemnly covenanted to pay. When Minister Alfaro left, he admitted that he got no promise that the debtor would live up to its engagement. ¶ Weary from the heavy job of setting up machinery to spend his $4,000,000,000 works fund and trying to spur Congress into action, the President got some relief when, for the first time this year, the weather was pleasant enough for him to spend an afternoon on the Potomac aboard the Sequoia. ¶ Fortnight ago the President and Chief Justice Hughes considered the disposal of that half...
...assessment of each student to the sum of seven dollars would more than cover the deficit in these sports and would eliminate the necessity for any changes in athletic policy other than the proposed endowment fund. Under such a plan the H.A.A. could retain its present staff of coaches and students could receive instruction, equipment, and coaching which are worthy of Harvard College...
...coin with an "official gold value" for which nobody can get gold. Big difference today between the Roosevelt dollar and the Stalin ruble-a vast difference-lies in the fact that the Dictator rigidly sets the price of rubles for foreigners, whereas the President merely uses his stabilization fund to keep exchange fluctuation in bounds. Stalin has any Russian caught exporting or importing rubles shot, and rubles are confiscated from tourists at the Russian frontier. Result: Russians mistrust the ruble so much that in Russia it is "worth about...
...Board member and uncle of President Roosevelt, and Playwright Eugene O'Neill. Twenty-four other new members were elected. Four years ago the Society was bequeathed $4,225,000 by the late, scholarly Richard Penrose, brother of the late G. O. Politician Boies Penrose. The income from this fund the Society parcels out in grants to aid research. Twenty-four new grants were announced last week...