Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not seem necessary to point out that the poetry fund has done its greatest good by being unobatrusive. There has been little publicity and much informality. Interested students have not been neglected, and at the same time there has been no open attempt to induce attendance. The result is that half a dozen modern poets have been able to speak informally without having to exert a popular appeal or to hold the attention of an audience...
...been so unobtrusive in his numerous gifts to the University in the cause of poetry. In the occasional meetings of the group students of similar interests have been drawn together; recent poetry is discussed, and without and organization of any kind, ideas in poetry are promoted. If the fund could be used to present occasional speakers of interest to a larger public, and at the same time the smaller group could hold intermittent meetings, the best efforts of the founder will be realized...
Morris Gray Fund...
...contributions last week to the city's community fund: Edsel Ford, $130,000; Senator James Couzens, $120,000; the Fisher family, $125,000; General Motors...
Last week, the Josiah Macy Jr. Fund, created six months ago by Mrs. Walter Graeme Ladd (of the rich New Jersey Macy family), established a fellowship to pay the expenses of an assistant for Dr. Einstein. First incumbent will be Dr. Einstein's good friend and familiar, Dr. Walter Mayer, mathematician at the University of Vienna...