Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Roosevelt broke another political precedent last week when he appealed by radio to his "forgotten man" for small contributions to the Democratic campaign fund. Next day to Manhattan headquarters a Dr. M. Collier, dentist, brought the first $1. Behind him came Bishop Julius Walter Atwood of Arizona, member of Manhattan's exclusive Century Club, with a $10 check. First day's collections: $197.50. Campaign budget: $1,500,000. Two days later Nominee Roosevelt went to Sea Girt, N. J.. where Boss Frank Hague had massed 100,000 Democrats to hear him speak on Prohibition. Flaying...
...last month of direct action against Chicago's delinquent taxpayers (TIME, July 25): Let 10,000 teachers be sworn in as tax-collectors, suggested the Committee. Let them put on a four-day drive for the $45,000,000 in 1930 taxes which is earmarked for the school fund. The teachers could work in their own districts, where they would be likely to know the property owners. Said Counsel Sapiro: "Naturally [the teachers] want their pay . . . and they are willing to ask the bodies that appointed them to stand on 50,000 doorsteps and bring the school...
Canadian Government auditors were making an examination last week of the books of the University of Manitoba at Winnipeg. Suddenly their eyes began to pop. The University endowment trust fund had dwindled from $1,600,000 to less than $100,000. Some of the losses seemed due to bad investments; but the $500,000 Rockefeller endowment was gone, other funds completely wiped out. For this there could be only one explanation: misappropriation. The auditors' eyes turned slowly upon the University's bursar and chairman of the board of governors. John Alexander Machray, K. C., 67, Cambridge man, prominent...
Because Lawyer Machray is chancellor of the Church of England diocese of Rupert's Land, church officials took a look at their books too last week. Their eyes also popped. Of the $1,500,000 Anglican endowment fund, raised over many years by Canadian church members for such purposes as pensions, only $250,000 was left intact...
...greatest drawing cards the Colon could not retrench; immediately after the successful 1931 season it had signed contracts with Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi and Coloratura Soprano Lily Pons. But there was no cause for regret. When Lauri-Volpi departed last month he flung exuberantly to the Argentine internal loan fund 50,000 pesos ($12,500), half of his season fee. Pretty Lily Pons got more: $27,000 for the season. Her Lucia and Lakme spellbound the critics, brought the scalpers as much as five times the box office price. No less did the svelte Pons figure and dark Pons lashes...