Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meal, they gave their attention to fulfilling the last wishes of a man they both admired: the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who left half of his $550,000 estate as a gift to the U. S. Question was whether the gift should merely be dumped into the General Fund of the Treasury or set aside for some special purpose. Music lovers were suggesting a partial endowment for the National Symphony Orchestra. Justice Holmes preferred burlesque shows to concerts...
...sovereignty of the State shall be no more. The new President has set up a Boston Tea Party of his own by which he will reach out into the sovereign States, draw out the tax resources, and then withhold from the States their proportion of this fund if they insist on exercising the right of a State...
...color photography, an attempt is being made in the Anthropology Department to solve one of the many problems confronting the physical anthropologist, the problem of measuring eye pigmentation and pattern. The experiments are being carried on by Edward Hertzberg under a grant from the Milton Fund...
...class reunions after the program this afternoon. The Class of 1898, of which Mr. Greene is a member, expects to have 30 members back from a total of 50. At this reunion Major Edward F. O'Dowd, president of the class, will present the balance of the $1000 scholarship fund...
...morning last October an issue of 6% Baldwin bonds was selling on the New York Curb Exchange at a premium of 11? on the dollar. Without warning, the Baldwin directors suddenly announced that interest payments, not on the bonds publicly held, but on those in the sinking fund, would be suspended. On that first admission of financial difficulties, Baldwin's 6% bonds took a deep nose-dive that carried them down 34 points in three days to 77? on the dollar...