Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honest, orthodox M. Daladier last week, took a handsome "profit" for the French Treasury at once. This profit, obtained by "revaluing" the gold stocks of the Bank of France and the exchange fund of the State, totaled 47 billion francs...
...Euclid or parse a Greek verb," jeered Southern Statesman John C. Calhoun before the Civil War, "and I'll admit he's a human being." Since that challenge the doors of higher learning have swung slowly open to U. S. Negroes. Last week the Julius Rosenwald Fund, making its annual fellowship awards, had no trouble finding Negroes to fulfill the Calhoun specifications for a human being...
...Rosenwald Fund each year subsidizes a group of white men and women in the South and brilliant Negroes everywhere for scholarship and creative work. This year it granted $85,000 to 18 whites, 34 Negroes. The Negro fellows, picked from 400 applicants, are expected to make important contributions to U. S. culture in a dozen fields of knowledge...
Established in 1928, the Harvard Yenching Institute, administers a fund established under the will of Charles M. Hall, of Niagara Falls, New York. The purposes of the Institute are to early on for properly prepared Chinese and Occidental Scholars, research and educational work of the type appropriate to a graduate school of arts and sciences...
...there were problems. As a trustee of the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, Dick Whitney in the summer of 1937 handled certain perfectly legal switchings of its portfolio. With the securities in his hands and creditors on every side, Broker Whitney seemingly could not resist the opportunity to hypothecate them for personal loans as he was also doing with the securities of other customers. When Governor Edward H. H. Simmons tried to get the securities back, Dick Whitney stalled for time. Finally Mr. Simmons, who had preceded Whitney as president of the Exchange, forced the issue, got some inkling...