Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinct disadvantage in their initial year. While the Lowell House Committee, for example, has been active in finding the wishes of House members and in effecting innovations, the committee in Eliot House has hardly made its existence known. It has been negligent in collection of money for the House fund, procuring contributions from some members and not even soliciting other students in the House; in minor matters it has shown little efficiency. The contrast between other of the seven committees is no less striking; one some have been active in organizing discussion and study groups and in planning social functions...
...Manhattan art world was much concerned with the theatre last week. At the new Sidney Ross Gallery an imposing show of the "Theatre in Art" was held for the benefit of the Actors Fund. It was an important collection. Its sponsors assembled portraits of actors, back stage sketches, scenes of circuses, vaudeville, burlesque and grand opera by such potent names as Thomas Benton, Guy Pene du Bois, Alexander Brook, Antonio Salemme. Critics applauded...
Milk Man's Son. Last week Nathan Straus Jr., 42, son of the late Charitarian Nathan Straus, assumed leadership for the first time in fund-raising activities of any sort, as chairman of the Greater New York section of the American Palestine campaign. Presiding at the meeting at which Nahum Sokolow also spoke, he said: "I like a difficult job . . . I accept the responsibility of leadership at this hour, not merely by right of name or kinship with any man. but by right of my conviction of the supreme importance of the success of Palestine. . . . The Passover week is near...
...from the insurance company that Diana would not leave New York. She would be presented to New York University as soon as $65,000 was raised to build a proper tower for her to stand on. That was seven years ago. Elder Statesman Root took charge of the building fund, Diana retired to a Brooklyn warehouse. New Yorkers lost interest. Last week New York was surprised to learn that Diana was lost to them. While the N. Y. U. building fund languished, acquisitive Director Fiske Kimball of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, cash in hand, had won the New York...
...York State Federation of Gardens. Proceeds from the show are dispensed a dozen ways. Some $40,000 is distributed in prizes. The Horticultural Society gives free exhibitions in its rooms and in the American Museum of Natural History while the Florists' Club has established a fund to provide traveling fellowships to study plant diseases. The Garden Club of America, and the various other groups associated with the show, use the Flower Show to further three campaigns that are gaining political importance: 1) the removal of billboards from highways; 2) roadside planting; 3) the teaching of conservation and nature study...