Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinguished scientists from all over the country looked on, Dr. Max Mason, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and chairman of the Comstock Fund Committee, presented Professor Bridgman with a gift of $2,500, given as a recognition of his investigations into the electrical constitution of matter. The prize is awarded "for the most important discovery or investigation in electricity, magnetism, or radiant energy, or to aid investigation in these fields...
...week Kentucky became the sixth State whose unemployment relief had to be taken over entirely by the Federal Government.* Simultaneously, President Roosevelt announced the creation of a Civil Works Administration under the supervision of Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. CWA will take $400,000,000 from the Public Works fund, $150,000.000 from the Relief Administration, release 2,000,000 men from local and State relief rolls at once, put 2,000,000 other unemployed to work by Dec. 15. CWA workers will be employed on small local projects (playgrounds, sanitation, pest control, repairs), will work a 3O-hr. week...
...burden of expenses has been greatly relieved through the work of the Loan Fund. A man may borrow $300 the first year, and $600 the second. In addition, there are fifty-three service scholarships for poor men, not to mention numerous Alumni Club scholarships...
These four Fellowships are part of the Charles and Julia Henry Fund which was founded "in the earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States." The awards, which carry a stipend of 500 pounds, entitles the holder to a year's study at Oxford or Cambridge University; while similar awards in Great Britain enable the holder to study at either Harvard or Yale University. Candidates must submit evidence of distinction in some recognized branch of learning, and at the same time, must present a definite scheme of study or research...
...Wood Louse") Obregon, son-in-law of President Machado hired by Chase's Havana branch (at $19,000 a year), had turned out to be absolutely useless for any purpose except entertaining clients; that Machado had used up $9,000,000 of a $12,000,000 pension trust fund. Other letters declared that $18,000,000 had been spent unnecessarily in rebuilding the Cuban Cap itol, that the whole Machado Cabinet had big graft in construction of Havana's waterworks. Finally Inquisitor Pecora himself dammed up the flood of epistolary candor, suppressed one paragraph and a whole memorandum...