Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean A. C. Hanford announced last night that January 1 will be the last day for applying for the Charles and Henry Fund Scholarships. These scholarships carry a stipend of 500 pounds, and are ordinarily tenable for one year, although they may, in exceptional cases, be extended for a second year. The purpose of the awards is to enable American students to study at Oxford or Cambridge University, either as graduates or undergraduates...
...henchmen had been dug up by the crusading New York World-Telegram. Kaplan was accused of drawing an exorbitant salary ($21,800 per year) not counting "gifts" the union voted to him. Union members complained that his bodyguards beat them up, forced them to contribute to his legal defense fund, deprived them of jobs, drove them out of the local. On the side he operated a projection machine manufacturing company with which exhibitors found it wise to deal...
...Carnegie Corporation, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, Milbank Memorial Fund, New York Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Julius Rosenwald Fund, Russell Sage Foundation, Twentieth Century Fund, Social Science Research Council, Vermont Commission on County Life. *Including "$125,000,000 . . . spent for the services of osteopaths, chiropractors, naturopaths and allied groups, and faith healers, and $360,000,000 for patent medicines. Much of the former sum and practically all of the latter are wasted...
Paul Binch, of the Boston Unemployed Council, said "The Hunger Marchers will demand from congress a $50 sum for each unemployed worker and $10 for each dependent as a relief fund for the winter. The marchers will also bring pressure to bear on congress to pass a bill providing for some form of unemployment insurance...
...this book will be devoted to a fund for the victims of French cruelty in Syria." Present U. S. price of a copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom: $1,000 (alltime highest price...