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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Payne apparently referred to the $3,741,598 of the National Red Cross's general funds unbudgeted last June 30; $5,000,000 of its ''special reserve" fund, $4,000,000 expected from dues (4,130,966 adults, 6,930,849 school children) and other revenues this year-total, about 13 millions-plus the incalculable openhandedness of U. S. citizens...
Last week's cartoon (see cut) was another reaction to the Lamont Fund. The caption read: "With No Apologies to Mr. Lamont: the Alumni Do Right by the College Martyrs...
...Last March, led by Corliss Lament, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, 52 Harvard alumni wrote an open letter to the University, asking that the women be paid 2¢ per hour back wages over the whole period. Harvard refused. Alumnus Lamont then organized the Harvard Scrubwomen Fund, raised $3,880, portioned it out last Christmas to the scrubwomen...
Undergraduate reactions have been vigorous. Even the comparatively dignified Harvard Crimson (daily) has published satiric verses on the scrub subject. When, last May, the Harvard Square Deal Association gave a benefit "Scrubwomen's Ball" for the Lamont Fund and got two of the women, Mrs. Mary Hogan and Mrs. Annie Mclntyre. to act as chaperons, six students attended in a buggy, one of them astride an old white horse...
...Austin, Tex. Funnyman Will Rogers performed for the benefit of the Red Cross Drought relief fund (see p. 22). One of his stories: "[At a dinner party] everybody watched Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes to see what he would do with his glass. He didn't keep us waiting long? just parted his whiskers, said 'Let her go!' and drained it to the bottom. Now there's a man after my own heart! ... If he would only consent to run [again] for President, come down here and travel with me from town to town and let me shave...