Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form of crime they could not solve: minor robberies in the Roosevelt household. Missing were money, dresses, coats, lamps, pieces of linoleum. Secretary Marguerite Le Hand, Clerks Grace Tully and Paula Larabee, Chief Messenger Joseph Sheehan were victims. As a final result, $200 disappeared from the White House police fund...
...pending pump-priming bill and voted a $125,000,000 "dole" to the needy after President Roosevelt had warned of a threatened crisis in unemployment this summer and demanded a free hand to combat it. Attacking widespread Senate agitation to ear-mark the $3,247,500,000 recovery-relief fund as a safeguard against its use by administration for political reprisals, the President wrote Sen. Alva Adams, D., Colo., floor manager of the measure, insisting on a flexible appropriation...
...Reynolds itself. The control stocks of Continental and Reynolds, said Mr. Ballantine, had no asset values, the prices were excessive and the sellers should have known that some raid on the companies' assets was planned. Further the bill of complaint specified other interesting uses of Continental's funds: to buy all stock of Corporate Administration, Inc., substantially the only asset of which was a management contract with Administered Fund Second, Inc.: to buy stock of an aircraft corporation regarded by the trustee as of little or no value; to buy a stock exchange seat for a customer...
...President's $5,000,000,000 spending program went through the House like a breeze. The $3,019,000,000 is relief money: mainly $1,250,000,000 for WPA, $965,000,000 for PWA (plus a $500,000,000 revolving fund to be used for loans to States & cities), $175,000,000 to the Farm Security Administration. As such it represented the rest of the program proposed by Franklin Roosevelt a month ago, except for the $300,000,000 for slum clearance...
Testifying before SEC last month, Edward H. H. Simmons said he had known that his former fellow Exchange Governor Richard Whitney had used cash belonging to the Gratuity Fund, but had not thought this significant enough to report to the Exchange because using customers' cash was general practice among brokerage houses. SEC regarded this assertion as remarkable, ordered the Exchange to look into the matter...