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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increased from $2,500 to $5,000. Silver Purchases, authorizing the Treasury to buy silver in the world market until the monetary reserve consists of 75% gold and 25% silver. Railroad Pensions, for all railway employes above 65. Employes will contribute one-third, railroads two-thirds to the retirement fund. Communications Commission to rule telephone, telegraph, radio and cable companies. Deficiency Appropriations, providing $1,715,000,000 for unemployment and drought relief. This list of one week's accomplishments would have been enough for an entire session of many another Congress. It was not enough for the 73rd whose...
...supplementary grant from the Henry Russell Shaw Fund goes to John Barzillai Rackliffe '34, of Newton, Mass. He will receive the degree summa cum laude in History and Literature. He was awarded the History and Literature Prize last year. He entered Harvard from the Country Day School for Boys of Boston...
Charlestown Anti-Nazi Defense Fund...
Institution in London. He had been pained to discover that a portion of the Church pension fund came from $50,000 worth of Vickers, Ltd. stock. No less pained were other clerics the following day when the stock was ordered sold. Slender white-haired Douglas Vickers, director general of the firm that bears his name, was far too busy last week to pay attention to all this. Other arms tycoons have their hobbies: postage stamps, hybrid tea roses, Louis Seize furniture, after-dinner speeches about peace. Making money is the hobby of Director General Vickers, who is also a very...
...several smaller ones. An x-ray unit invented by the late Dr. Arthur C. Heublein, which allows the entire body to be flooded by x-rays for long periods, the hospital stopped using last year for lack of money. In 1902 Memorial Hospital acquired the first cancer research fund in the U. S. -$100,000 from Mrs. Collis P. Huntington, relict of Southern Pacific R. R.'s president. Since 1927 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. has been giving the hospital $60,000 a year. But all hospitals need money. Memorial has handled 60,000 patients during its 50 years...