Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Analysis of the total showed that $5,797,238.80 was for the 300th Anniversary Fund; the remainder for Capital, not including the 300th Anniversary Fund, and for immediate use, in the approximate ratio...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political fortunes by John L. Lewis. Ontario farmers grin, figuring that "Mitch" is only having his fun when he makes such charges, but the Premier continues roaring at Washington from public platforms: "Is it any wonder that [Lewis] can corrupt governments with a slush fund of that size...
...national Czechoslovakia. First gesture of grateful Czechs was to elect him President, which post he held until failing health forced him to resign in 1935; last gesture of grateful Czechs was to award him seven years ago a private fortune of $600,000, which he promptly gave to a fund for cancer study...
Last July when Missouri's new Governor Lloyd Crow Stark was enjoying a vacation in Alaska his State Board of Fund Commissioners sold $3,000,000 worth of State building bonds to Baum, Bernheimer Co., a Kansas City bond house, at an "emergency" private sale. St. Louis bond dealers, who had not been given a chance to bid, charged that the State lost $50,000 on the premium of $100,000 paid by Baum, Bernheimer. St. Louis' Post-Dispatch made the most of it, pointed out that the same sort of thing had happened twice in the previous...
...World goes into pure-anecdotage. There are fascinating tales of the infirmary: how cataracts were taken from the eyes of a rhinoceros; how a carrying case had to be invented for porcupines; how leather boots had to be made for a young elephant with weak ankles. And from the fund of experience laid up during 38 years at the zoo, Dr. Ditmars recalls the time a lion named Simba missed his birthday party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once there was a seal (not from the zoo) loose...