Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire marched into the White House, invited President Hoover to dedicate next year a memorial at Franklin, N. H. to mark Daniel Webster's sesquicentennial. The President hemmed & hawed, would promise nothing. Then Senator Moses asked for a contribution to the memorial fund. Promptly President Hoover signed a check for $100. Before going to the Navy Department to get another $100 subscription from Secretary Adams, the Senator issued this bit of mosaic. ''It's not in the cards to take the Republican nomination away from President Hoover...
...their chateau [at Creyssels, France], which was called Roca-folio. . . . The greater part . . . of the rocks of Creyssels . . . were found to be of petrified leaves." Many issues of the News carry articles about the Rockefeller Foundation, John Davison's educational stimulant. To the Family Association's educational fund John Davison has given nothing but his dues...
...first issue. If 6,000 copies of the edition of 10,000 are sold at 25?, Manager Klein declares there will be enough to pay each worker about half of what he used to earn when regularly employed. Any surplus would be used to build a relief fund, he said...
...Baha'i has no more money, and will ask for none. All contributions must be voluntary, from people to whom it represents an actual sacrifice. But Chicago rumor says that Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, who does not need to scrimp and sacrifice, was a large contributor to the building fund last year...
...estate of the late Viscount William Waldorf Astor? (1848-1919) a rebate of $10,000,000 in Federal inheritance taxes, together with $6,000,000 in interest accrued since 1922. The re-fund will be divided between Viscount William Waldorf Astor II, 52 (eldest son), husband of Lady Astor, and John Jacob Astor, chairman of the Times Publishing Co. (London...