Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guffawed at the sallies of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill against Chancellor Snowden. In office Mr. Churchill was famed for "raiding" every fund he could lay his hands on. Mr. Snowden has just raided the British "dollar fund" in Manhattan for $165,000,000 to balance his budget. "I could hardly believe my ears," drawled Mr. Churchill, "when I heard the Chancellor . . . unfold a long series of ... expedients I had devised and practiced...
Donations from Harvard University, the Rockefeller Foundation, and many friends, have enabled the construction of a new main building for the Harvard Observatory and the creation of the Pickering Fund to aid the American Association of Variable Star Observers...
...American Association of Variable Star Observers, which was founded by Professor Pickering, head of the observatory for 40 years, is to be subsidized partly by the funds that the observatory has been given, and partly by donations given to it directly. The combination of these two sums of money will be known as the Pickering Memorial Fund...
Conclusions. The "transitional benefit" is sheer dole or state-charity. The borrowings of the Unemployment Fund smell of "dole" (repayment being most doubtful). But that part of the "covenanted benefit" (about two-thirds) which is paid out of "ordinary contributions" is still properly designated as insurance...
...woman who has kept a job for the past ten years, who has worked, contributed to the Unemployment Insurance Fund, and still keeps on, vaguely troubled and disgusted by the sharp tricks of Dole-perverting neighbors, but never aping them...