Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in 1930, four men contributed $10,000 apiece to Franklin Roosevelt's campaign fund. They were Jesse Isidor Straus, William Woodin, Col. Edward Mandell House and Frank Comerford Walker. Mr. Straus has been made Ambassador to France. Mr. Woodin was appointed Secretary of the Treasury. Col. House, who could not stand Washington's summer heat even when Woodrow Wilson was in the White House, wanted no job for his contribution to the Roosevelt war chest. Neither, according to report, did rich, affable, unassuming Manhattan Lawyer Frank Walker, Anaconda Copper's lawyer. But because Mr. Walker...
...beak-nosed British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, the British taxpayer will make good Newfoundland's budgetary deficit as a "free gift"-expected to total ?2,000,000 ($10,300,000 at current exchange). Later the great island's debt will be amortized through a sinking fund...
William Rockhill Nelson migrated to Kansas City from Indiana 55 years ago, founded the Star which quickly grew to fame. Known as the Baron of Brush Creek, he died in 1915. By his will, and those of his wife and daughter a $12,000,000 trust fund from the sale of the Star to its employes was set up to build a great museum, to fill it with treasures.* There was only one important restriction: the museum may only buy the works of artists 30 years dead...
...three years Advisor Harold Woodbury Parsons has sailed around the coastline of Europe in his own yacht, making forays inland to pick pictures. On his advice the Nelson fund directors have bought lavishly and well. Critics picking their way through echoing marble galleries last week spotted at least half a dozen paintings of world importance: Velasquez' St. Peter; Rubens' Portrait of Old Parr; El Greco's Penitent Magdalene; Goya's Don Ignacio Omulryan y Rourera; Titian's Antoine Perrenot de Granvella; Nicolas Poussin's Triumph of Bacchus...
Edward L. Casey '19, Head Coach of Crimson gridsters, together with Coaches Nils Nelson and Wesley Fesler will represent the coaching staff at the offices of the genial St. Nicholas, and J. Robert Haley '36, first string quarterback will support Gundlach in receiving contributions for the Post's Santa Fund...