Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign to raise the money was started by Lamont and his associates in October, when a letter stating their case was received simultaneously by the CRIMSON and the Alumni Bulletin. That the fund was successfully procured was made known yesterday by Lamont, who said that "the money is merely so much back pay, and is not charity or a gift. The fact that it will be paid on Christmas is merely a coincidence." He added that many Harvard men "were glad to make right" what they deemed an injustice and a blot on Harvard's reputation...
...Lamont, representing a group of 50 Harvard graduates announced that they would raise $5,000 to give to the scrubwomen. This plan failed, and the case was considered concluded until the latest step. The letter of the committee headed by Lamont, on October 24, explained the aim of the fund, "to repair the original injustice and to convince the general public that a more humane and generous temper characterizes Harvard than that which has been displayed by the present administration...
Among those contributing to the theatre fund are Thomas W. Lamont '92, Maurice Wertheim '06, Winthrop Ames '95, Edward A. Filene, Francis M. Weld, '17, Owen G. Davis '92, Kenneth Macgowan '11, J. M. Brown '23, Eliot Cabot, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Gertrude Newell, H. A. Rusch, Jr. '28, Miss Catherine S. Huntington, Mrs. Morison, Mrs. Pinckney Holbrook, and P. M. Herzog...
...Canyon Project, but this project includes not only a dam in the Colorado River, but the all-American Canal, and incidental works, including a diversion dam, also in the Colorado, and power development structures. The only other title fixed by the Act is that of the "Colorado River Dam Fund," a fund into which Federal advances for the construction of the various parts of the Boulder Canyon Project, including.Hoover Dam, a diversion dam, and All-American Canal, etc., will be made...
...Answering proposals that he reduce payments into the War debt sinking fund in order to retain last year's 1% cut in income-taxes, the President last week said: "The Administration is opposed to any encroachment upon the statutory provisions for the retirement of the public debt...