Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohioans. Four years ago property owners got an amendment to the State Constitution lowering the real-estate tax ceiling to ten mills. Since then the National Association of Manufacturers and other industrial interests have defeated attempts to get other revenues through higher income taxes. Meanwhile the State school aid fund has fallen $17,000,000 behind, left localities in the lurch. Only solution is special local tax levies by cities. One after another, all large Ohio cities except Dayton voted such levies, in some cases, notably in Cincinnati and Springfield, after schools closed...
...Grace Cathedral (Episcopal), building since 1910 on Nob Hill, has had a different course. For the past year its staff has watched, with anxious eyes, the state of health of a doddering, 85-year-old retired dentist named Dr. Nathaniel Coulson. To the Cathedral's building fund, pious Dr. Coulson has assigned the income of no less than 50 annuities, totaling between $1,000 and $2,000 a month. The annuities cease when Dr. Coulson dies...
...would do. . . . Mr. Lamont did what a friend and partner should have done-lent George Whitney temporarily the cash to make restitution possible. There was no concealment from the Stock Exchange and could not have been, for the Stock Exchange by its vice president and chairman of its Gratuity Fund had made the demand and received restitution, had with the approval of its counsel refused a day's delay, and had sought and obtained the assurance of George Whitney that payment and delivery would be made, an assurance which would obviously have been unnecessary if Richard Whitney...
...George Whitney borrowed $1,082,000 from Lamont in November to enable Richard to restore cash and securities to the N. Y. Stock Exchange's Gratuity Fund...
Archibald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection of Contemporary Journalism, gave a reading of his own poetry in Emerson D yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock before an audience of over 100 people. His reading was the first of the three Morris Gray Poetry Fund speakers scheduled for this half year. Robert Frost and Carl Van Doren are scheduled to come...