Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the CRIMSON has taken the lead in demanding that Harvard recognize its graduates who died for the enemy, may I suggest that it consent to act as Treasurer of this fund, and that in order to preserve the democracy of the memorial, contributions be limited to one dollar or less. Sincerely, Eugene Du Bois...
Next week at Atlantic City will convene the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to discuss the state of industry. Ready for its consideration was a carefully prepared report against increased Federal taxes, extrava- gant public building programs, application of all the sinking fund allotment and foreign interest payments to public debt retirement. This meeting Michigan's millionaire Senator Couzens last week viewed with loud alarm. In a sarcastic statement he declared that the business men meeting in the "Rose Rooms" or the "Pompeian Rooms" of Atlantic City hotels would doubtless resolve against any interference with their affairs...
When a wealthy man contributes heavily to his party's presidential campaign fund and thereafter, upon his candidate's election to the White House, is rewarded with an Ambassadorship, nobody seriously accuses him of having bribed the President of the U. S. to obtain a good fat job. But because he shuffled this standardized political procedure into an illegitimate pattern an ex-Congressman of Indiana last week stood convicted in Federal court of bribery and job-selling. His conviction loomed as a general warning to all other Congressmen to play the patronage game according to the rules...
Republican Harry Ephraim Rowbottom of Evansville, onetime tailor and accountant, Mason, Moose, Eagle and Shriner, was elected to the House of Representatives from the First Indiana District in 1924. Last November a Democrat beat him for reelection. The Rowbottom campaign fund was in the red. As a "lame duck," he continued to get small postal jobs for friends, took their money as contributions to his deficit. For this he was caught, indicted. On trial at Evansville last week he admitted that one Walter Ayer had given him $750 and that he had recom- mended Ayer's son Gresham...
...Angeles, Calif., Mrs. Anna C. Johnstone revealed that her late mother had forced her for years to masquerade as a boy in order to get a trust fund created in England by her uncle...