Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Manhattan jobless relief focused on single women. Public sympathy was whipped up by a story of eight out-of-work girls who occupied one $2-per-week room, subsisted on five bananas per day. Mrs. August Belmont, head of the Woman's Fund Committee, raised $4,500 by reading in public what George Bernard Shaw described as his "love letters" to her, written in 1904 and 1905 when she was famed Actress Eleanor Robson. And in Washington Mrs. Herbert Hoover returned from the Rapidan camp to speak over the radio in praise of girls and women who have...
...Cross last week collected the final dollars of its $10,000,000 drought relief fund-and $5,828.34 extra-in time for Chairman John Barton Payne to say, with calendar meticulousness: "It must be a source of satisfaction to the thousands who contributed . . . to know that they have helped their fellow-citizens over this calamitous winter season. . . . Magnificent support . . . all praise...
...their greatest treasures. But last week New Yorkers with charity in their hearts and 50? in their pockets were able to see more than 100 of these back-room masterpieces, contributed by 33 art galleries. Purpose of the show was to raise money for the Women's Fund of the Emergency Unemployment Committee. Women as well as men are unemployed in New York, but they do not stand in breadlines, they panhandle no pedestrians. State building programs do them no good. Ladies in distress need a specialized, more tactful relief. Urged by Mrs. Mary Woodard Reinhardt of the Reinhardt...
...Noble lectures were founded in 1897 by Mrs. W. B. Noble in memory of her husband, who was an Episcopal clergyman. Her purpose in establishing the fund for these lectures was to continue the mission of her husband as a minister, and to arouse the interest of Harvard students in the Christian ministry...
Harvard University was yesterday named recipient of $10,000 by the will of Louis Curtis '70 of Boston. Of this sum $5000 is to go to the classical department to promote the study of Latin, $2500 to the endowment fund of the Law School, and $2500 of the Arnold Arboretum...