Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from show business as actors in burlesque, vaudeville, stock companies, tent shows as well as in legitimate drama and musical presentations. How many of these still have work is not known, but paid-up memberships in the Actors' Equity Association have declined 70%. In Manhattan, the Actors' Fund, Rachel Crothers' Stage Relief Fund and the benignantly tactful Actors' Dinner Club-where nobody knows who pays for two dinners and who pays for none-have spent some $300,000 a year to temper the blight of hard times on the profession. But the show business will...
...among some 50 canners limiting the pack of the California crop to 218,000 tons (10,000.000 cases). Packers were to pay peach growers $20 per ton for their product (last year's price: $6.50). They were also to contribute $2.50 for every ton they packed to a fund with which to compensate growers for their unharvested surplus. Calistan Packers were allotted 77,000 cases for canning...
...hall, common room, and small library in the Palmer house would be far simpler than the Student Council's plan and probably much more pleasant to all concerned. As for the expense, all those intending to make use of the building should be asked to contribute to the small fund necessary for its upkeep. It is doubtful that there would be much difficulty in collecting a sufficient sum. Even though a small original outlay might be called for from the University, the importance of the problem and the definite advantages of the plan more than warrant some sacrifice...
...Pollux last night chuckling softly over a newspaper item which reported Bishop Manning's refusal to allow the Lutherans to use the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York for a great Protestant celebration commemorating Martin Luther. Pollux was amused to recollect the good Bishop's fund-raising slogan when building the Cathedral: "A House of prayer for all people." The invisible amendment which Pollux missed seems to have read: "Except for non-Episcopalians and all those bearing the name Judge Ben Lindsey...
...Music 8" will be the course which Dr. Leichtentritt will give under the Roratio Appleton Lamb Fund, and will deal with the Aims and Methods of Musicology. He will also give several seminary courses for advance students. Schoenburg, the well-known modern German composer, who has had to leave Germany, was also considered for the position, but has taken a place instead at the New England Conservatory...