Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania. With retail prices at a 1913 low, Philadelphia shopkeepers inaugurated a four-weeks BUY NOW campaign to stimulate local trade. Governoi Fisher, impressed, urged the whole state to do likewise. Pittsburgh raised a $100,000 relief fund, started a $300,000 public construction program with hand labor...
Illinois. An Unemployment relief fund of $100,000 per month-was arranged by Samuel Insull, public utilitarian, by collecting one day's pay per month from all the workers in his $3,000,000,000 industry. Said Tycoon Insull: "The responses will be practically universal. Girls and boys, men and women will all come in alike...
...celebrated annual Northfield Religious Conferences are merely held on the school grounds during vacations, are not part of the school year. Northfield being needy and this its semicentennial year, there is now in progress a drive for $3,000,000 to increase faculty pay, provide a teacher-retirement fund, secure upkeep for the physical property. Last week President Speer was happy to announce that one-half of the fund had been raised, that an appeal for funds had been laid before Edward Stephen Harkness, a seemingly inexhaustible source of educational charity ($26.000,000 to Yale and Harvard in three years...
...talks are given under the auspices of the College Library, through a fund provided by Morris Gray '77. All the guest speakers discuss subjects relative to modern poetry, and all meetings are of an informal nature. It is not known whether the remaining meetings of the year will be open to large numbers of undergraduates or not; the first one, however, at 8 o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, November 12, will be open to all who ask for invitations in advance in the Treasure Room...
...thirds the size of the Jefferson Laboratory and will be devoted entirely to research. In conjunction with its erection, the interior of Jefferson Laboratory will be completely remodelled affording much greater laboratory space for students than is now available. The new building has been made possible by an endowment fund raised during the last two years by alumni and many others interested in the physical sciences...