Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better compete with the American wheat farmer?" On the platform beside him Chairman Legge clamped his cigar, made no answer. When his turn to speak came he explained that the Farm Board had already sunk in wheat twice the crop's proportionate share of the $500,000,000 stabilization fund. Said he: "Fellow farmers! At least I hope some of you are farmers. . . . Are you fellows mendicants or beggars that you want more [U. S. funds]? ... If you'd quit being a confirmed individualist and organize to control production, you could get some place...
Party opposition to Chairman Huston's tenure of office developed four months ago when the Senate Lobby Committee revealed that Mr. Huston had made temporary use of funds contributed to the Tennessee River Improvement Association for Muscle Shoals lobbying to support his own stock margin account in Wall Street (TIME, March 31). Republicans were less concerned about the personal ethics of Mr. Huston's lobbying activities than they were about the possible effect of his financial transactions upon contributions to the party campaign fund this year. It was broadly stated that wealthy citizens would not play...
...Florida (by means of his Seaboard Railway, his hotels); after being a patient at a Central Valley sanatorium (N. Y.) since 1897; at the sanatorium. Estimated estate: $15,000,000, increased in 30 years by Standard Oil cash and stock dividends from an original (1901) $1,000,000 trust fund...
...three the quartet would become temporarily a quintet. Admirers prevailed on them to give a series of recitals. They did so and found themselves famed. Such great virtuosos and maestros as Zimbalist, Heifetz, Arturo Toscanini verbally crowned the young artists with laurel, forecast shining future:. Singer Gluck created a fund to aid them, received contributions from Manhattan's music-loving Warburgs, Kahns, Guggenheimers, Lewisohns. Thus blessed they went forth as the Musical Art Quartet, and for four seasons have passed from fame to fame. The Garrett tour will be their first trip abroad as a unit...
Last week Harvard University announced that to its Graduate School of Business Administration had been added a new unit: "The 250 Associates of the Harvard Business School" whose prime purpose is to create an endowment fund "to stabilize and promote research work and the collection of material for the teaching of business." Concurrently a list of 200 charter "Associates" was made public. Each one of them has promised to pay $1,000 annual dues for the creation and maintenance of the fund. Thus, to start with, the Associates have $200,000 for 1930. Later, at the discretion of the trustees...