Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago convention will surely be bitter, probably protracted. The fight over Roosevelt will inflict deep ugly wounds. Last week party leaders prepared to administer first-aid after the carnage. In a "message of practical politics" 61 prominent Democrats appealed for contributions to the party's $1,500,000 Victory Fund and promised...
...mock trial to raise funds for King Edward's Hospital Fund, Lord Riddell, newspaper proprietor, in a white top hat, with a bottle of port at his elbow, sat in judgment upon Actresses Gladys Cooper, Viola Tree, Lilian Braithwaite and Elizabeth Pollock, whom Author John Drinkwater, as prosecutor, sought to convict of "practicing undue domesticity and so neglecting their...
...graduate of the Ecole Speciale des Travaux of Paris, for study in the Harvard Engineering School. The Jay Backus Woodworth Fellowship in Geology, given in honor of the late Professor Woodworth by his students, has been awarded to Howard A. Powers, of Brookings, South Dakota. The James Edward Ditson Fund, providing for a travelling fellowship in Music, is given to Jacob M. Coopersmith, of Forest Hills, New York...
...these improvements, though welcome, will not in themselves be sufficient to dispose of the financial problem. The most onerous burden, that of excessive rent in the Houses, remains. Doubling up on single suites, and the creation of an House Aid fund, has in some cases partially lessened the cost. But it is at best a paradoxical procedure, first to elevate the cost of rooms beyond the average student's means, and then attempt to relieve the burden by a kind of dole. In doing so, the University implicitly admits the contention that the price of rooms is too high...
...those in the Senior Class who have already contributed to the Harvard Fund it will be some satisfaction to learn that the Class of 1932 is now leading all 69 College classes for this year with 244 contributors. To those who have delayed in sending in their contribution, one more fact may be an additional incentive. The prize Class of 1927 had 267 givers in its Senior year--the largest number of men that have ever given from a Class still in College. Obviously this figure is easily within our reach. There are always a number of men who mean...