Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Applications for the Charles and Julia Henry Fund Scholarships must be received by the secretary to the Corporation, University Hall, not later than Sunday, March 1. These scholarships, each of which will have an annual stipend of $500, will enable the holders to attend Oxford or Cambridge universities. Four American students will be appointed...
President Hoover accepted the Watson compromise because it did not specifically provide for food loans. Senator Robinson accepted it because it did not specifically bar them. President Hoover wrote Senator Robinson that the additional sum, which would run the Drought fund up to $65,000,000, would be used for "real aid," be administered "fairly and sympathetically." Both sides claimed a moral victory...
...denounced it as a "cheap evasion" of the Relief principle which Senator Borah had so thunderously proclaimed. They argued that farmers without security would not benefit at all. They predicted that Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, archfoe of the "food-dole," would never sanction the use of any of this fund for food for hungry...
...John Brooks Henderson Jr. had to produce an heir for her Senator father-in-law in order to receive a $600,000 trust fund. For several months she put padding inside her clothes. Then she adopted Trixie from an orphan asylum, collected the $600,000. The Senator died without being aware of the deception. In 1923, however, an aged family retainer grew wroth with Mrs. Wholean and told the secret to Mrs. Henderson Sr. He had witnessed the reception of the child in the Henderson Jr. home. Last week District of Columbia Supreme Court papers were produced to show that...
...Lieut. Williams declared that Britain's new speedy interceptor fighting planes, capable of 240 m. p. h., are adaptations of racing craft developed for the 1929 meet, which was won with a speed of 328.63 m. p. h. Liberty responded with an offer of $5,000 toward a fund of $300,000 needed to build and enter a U. S. craft...