Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creation of 40 more battalion chiefs, setting aside 7,498,000 francs for "leave of absence expenses" for the 23 generals, raising the salary of each member of the Air Council 29,880 francs, and giving the Vice President of the Superior Air Council a new entertainment fund of 34,000 francs...
...volume is incoherent, over-expanded, the pictures of contemporary life are a dismal failure and after having finished the book the reader is of the opinion that Mr. Wilson had a great fund of information about an interesting subject but that it has been unfortunately presented in a manner that makes the volume valuable only through a few isolated passages...
...with the problem of students' financial needs. Yale is meeting the problem by requiring a financial statement from all applicants for admission, and urging students who will need financial assistance, except those of outstanding promise, to attend state universities or other less expensive schools. Yale has also raised scholarship funds by alumni subscription. Harvard's answer to the problem has been, the $40,000 emergency fund for student employment, helpful, but inadequate, and often requiring more of a student's time than he can afford to give from his studies...
...Marjorie was so carefully raised. She was never allowed to play on the city streets." ¶In peace or in war all nations employ spies-more often to discover prosaic matters of policy than to hunt out exciting military secrets. The U. S. State Department has a secret fund which never appears in the budget and for which no accounting is made. With it the Government pays for its spies at secret work the world over. Because all nations are equally guilty of espionage, there is in Europe a definite technique and etiquet about arresting a foreign spy in peace...
...Bliss collection of modern paintings in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is one of the greatest of its kind in the world. It was bequeathed three years ago by the late Lizzie P. Bliss on condition the Museum raise an endowment fund of $1,000,000 (TIME, May 25, 1931). This sum was subsequently reduced to $750.000 by Lizzie's brother, Cornelius Newton Bliss (Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee and Metropolitan Opera director). Last week the Museum announced that its endowment fund had reached $600.000, that Brother Cornelius had accepted this as earnest of another...