Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, are on the editorial board which prepared the first complete American edition of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," put on sale yesterday. The proceeds from the sale of this book, ironically enough, will go to a special fund for refugee children from Germany...
...Australian Bush Fire Relief Fund the Duke of Windsor sent ?10 and a sympathetic thought: "Life is hard enough in these times without the added tribulation of bush fires...
...Part of Jewish property in Germany would be pooled into a trust fund from which emigrating Jews would be able to draw for passage, equipment and machinery needed in their new homelands...
When the conclave of 1922 gathered, there was almost no ready cash in the Vatican. Foresighted Pius XI reserved a fund for the next conclave, and last week the three Cardinals in charge had a reported $100,000 for its expenses. These were bound to be large. Seldom has the Sacred College been so full as it was last week (62 members out of a possible 70), and even its two ailing members planned to attend, with their physicians. Preparations for the gathering involved redding-up 62 modest bedchambers for Cardinals, as well as quarters for 62 ecclesiastical secretaries...
...Manhattan's New York University hired Bandmaster Vincent Lopez to give a course in the appreciation of jazz music. Last week staid Harvard University burst shagging from its cell, organized an unofficial swing course in the Music Deaprtment and set aside $250 of Harvard's Rogers Fund to buy swing records...