Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Create a $150,000,000 public building fund to aid unemployment...
Canvassers for the Miami Civic Tourist Club solicited Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone for a gift of $2,500 to swell a fund dedicated to community progress & betterment. News of the solicitation threw the club into a turmoil. President Clyde A. Epperson resigned; many board members followed his example. While this quarrel raged, a letter came from Capone's attorneys stating that no contribution would be forthcoming...
...tinkering with radio sets when he was 14. Never ceasing to be his hobby, radio became his career. He studied it at Stanford University, kept abreast of its progress during his graduate years at Harvard. After making a survey of aviation economics under a fellowship of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund, he perceived and took radio work for his own cross section of the air industry...
Significance in the last election the Press Lords" backed Loser David Lloyd George. Next they started a great national campaign for "Empire Free Trade" (TIME, Dec. 2, et seq.). Contributions to their campaign fund were handled by Treasurer Beaverbrook. Suddenly he vvithdrew from the "United Empire Party " returned all contributions to contributors (thus leaving Viscount Rotnermere holding an empty bag) and joined with Stanley Baldwin on the basis that "food taxes," a major feature of the Empire Free Trade" scheme, would be submitted to popular referendum by the Conservatives if returned to power (TIME, March 17). Tiring soon of slow...
...only known copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's works; a copy of Titus Andronicus published in 1594; many an early quarto; one of the three existing copies of the second edition of Hamlet* Amherst's Board of Trustees will administer the $10,000,000 fund, for which service the college will receive $250,000. When the Memorial is completed. Amherst's trustees will take whatever steps seem necessary to finance Shakespearean investigation and disseminate knowledge of Shakespeare...