Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time being. It had spent, up to Dec. 31, $849,965.49 to this end, of which $520,802.99 was for food and clothing and $329,162.50 was for pasturage and garden seeds. Of this total the national organization had contributed $446,234.90 from its $4,500,000 emergency fund whereas local chapters had supplied the balance. Relief had been extended to 49,963 families (approximately 250,000 persons) in 17 States...
...unable to accurately estimate in his senior year the size of his twenty-fifth anniversary gift, the Committee displayed sound commonsense. The most practical method for collecting money for this purpose used in recent years is an annual contribution by the members of the class to the Harvard Fund Council. This system enables a man to give what he can, when he can, and places no premature arbitrary figure for his total gift. Compared with the insurance proposal, the Harvard Fund has the advantage of allowing a man to determine the amount of his gift at the actual time...
...suggestion of widening influence accompanies the announcement from Columbia that the Casa de las Espanas, a new center of Spanish culture, has been opened. An endowment fund will be sought to enable it to carry out its twofold purpose as an agency of university education and of world cooperation...
...droughts are soon forgotten and minimized by citizens outside the afflicted area. When the Mississippi flooded in 1927 the Red Cross quickly raised $17,000,000 by popular subscription for relief. The Drought of 1930 was left to the Red Cross to relieve with a $5,000,000 "emergency" fund and no special public appeal...
...this purpose he wants a bond issue for $20000000 authorized and an emergency fund created to be used in the construction of public works. That he does not intend this money to be used as a dole is a tribute to his integrity and to the soundness of his ideas. He is not letting the voting power of the workers turn his head from the loss in efficiency that the dole would bring among them. The method by which he proposes to use the funds will enable the jobless to get work and thus get enough to keep themselves...