Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilbur's dual role, however, brought him under fire from a new quarter last week. The People's Legislative Service (insurgent Republican mouthpiece) loudly complained that as Stanford's president he had invested $7,000,000, one-quarter of the college's endowment fund, in public utility bonds, while as Secretary of the Interior he acts as chairman of the Federal Power Commission to supervise the finances of the same companies in which Stanford is an investor...
...opposed to Prohibition would contribute to the Crusaders or similar organizations one-tenth of what he spends each year for liquor, Prohibition would soon be ended." In Cleveland there was earnest talk of raising immediately $200,000, the city's share in a prospective $10,000,000 national fund. In Detroit, Henry Bourne Joy, Packard tycoon, cried: "I pray our President may soon recommend that the Federal Government cease to encroach upon the responsibilities of the States...
...these conditions the University administration which committed the injustice is the one to make amends. Lamont and his group would have done their duty by objecting to the policy of the administration and attempting by reasonable methods to get it changed. If they had wanted to get up a fund quietly to give the scrubwomen their "due" as a Christmas present, they would have been doing a generous thing and at the same time appeasing their own consciences. In acting beyond this, they are doing the University, whose fair name they are so assiduously attempting to clear, grievous injury...
...been a director of the Alumni Association since 1929. Thacher, a lawyer, has served as a member of the Overseers Committee to visit the Departments of History and Military Science. Clark is treasurer of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and secretary of the Harvard Endowment Fund...
...Luton, England (where most English straw hats are made), Rev. J. W. Woodhouse set about to raise $5,000 for the building fund of new St. Andrew's Church, which sum would meet the condition of a promise of $25,000. His method: sitting in the porch of the old church until, after three days, parishioners brought him the money...