Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which we are so proud, the producers saw fit to launch their actors on a communistic experiment of the most extreme kind. Getting away from the intricacies of money and all the characteristics of complex existence, all the worldly belongings of the community are thrown into a common fund. Such heresy out of Hollywood must be very shocking to all good, rugged individualists. Over-simplified as the story is, it does give a very interesting study in elementary division of labor for our rising young economic theorists, as the unemployed adventurers start economic life all over again...
Last week came a sorry day for Banker House. In a U. S. District Court in Cleveland he was being tried by seven women and five men on 16 charges of misapplication of Guardian's funds, and ten charges of false entry to cover up the misapplication. Question was whether Banker House had acted in good faith when, a scant 18 months after his Washington appointment, he had dipped into his bank's pension fund for money to bolster Guardian stock in a ''distress" market. Prosecution claimed that he had not, that the transaction was illegal...
...this work the committee has received a Milton Fund grant of $8,000 for the year 1934-35. It will be under the immediate supervision of Professors Howe, Wolbach, and Kohler of the committee...
Announcement of the date for Rhodes Scholarship applications focuses attention once again upon the question of efficient administration of the Rhodes Fund in America. A growing tendency has been noted throughout the country to criticize sharply the Rhodes Trustees for their selection of the type of man now nominated for the three year term at Oxford. An examination of the facts appears to show this attitude not entirely unwarranted...
...other musical philanthropies had already included $200,000 to the Chicago Civic Orchestra's Pension Fund; generous contributions to the MacDowell Colony in Peterboro, N. H.; the gift of Albert Arnold Sprague Memorial Hall to house the Yale School of Music...