Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pure water the Ambassador hoped to get by sinking artesian wells. Pure milk for Anne and other Embassy children he felt should come from imported U. S. cows. The Embassy, if Congress proves willing, will be pure colonial in style, with a good chance that patriots will start a fund to fill it with such sturdy colonial reproductions as Mrs. Roosevelt's craftsmen make at her Val-Kill furniture shop...
...season, they decided, could be put on for a little less than $150,000, approximately a third of the Insull com pany's annual deficit. With 75% capacity attendance the box-office takings would amount to $138,500, leaving a $11,500 deficit. With a $75,000 reserve fund they felt they could go ahead. They asked for it, got it. Paul Longone, a dapper little Italian, was engaged as impresario. He was handed $79,000 and told it was all he could have to pay for his artists. The talent that Impresario Longone got for the money bears...
When civic organizations howled with rage, Mayor O'Brien replied that since city officials contributed part of their salaries to the pension fund it was not true that "all you had to do was shake the tree and the plums come tumbling down." Later it was discovered that of $144,000 earmarked to keep the O'Briens from starvation, the Mayor had contributed exactly $28,000, the city having put up the rest...
...during one of London's persistent winter fogs (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). ¶George V hunched forward in his seat, Queen Mary raised her lorgnette with approving interest. On the stage of the Drury Lane Theatre at a command performance for the King's pension fund for British stage folk, blonde U. S. Actress Claire Luce and Dancer Fred Astaire. brother of Lady Charles Cavendish, were doing their light-footed, rubber-hipped dance from the musicomedy Gay Divorce. ¶Arrested three weeks ago for "uttering, knowing the contents thereof to be false, a letter demanding money from...
...doctors last week received a close-up report on state Medicine in finest flower. Although the reporters, slim Sir Arthur Newsholme of England and portly Secretary John Adams Kingsbury of the U. S. Milbank Memorial Fund, were biased in favor of state conduct of medicine in general when they visited Russia last year, they were willing to find faults. They found few, they report in Red Medicine.* Those few are mainly due, they believe, to the vast territory and population which Soviet State medicine is trying to cover. Principal findings...