Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as "calumnies and slander" have abated. A stanch little pro-Windsor party in Britain, who would like nothing better, regarded it as a favorable omen that the Duke last week sent $500 to a Leicestershire agricultural society for a new fair ground and the Duchess $25 to a fund for a new church school in Warfield, Berkshire, from which one of her ancestors sailed for the New World...
...prize money had been turned over to him in full. Government bigwigs had even saved him from being fleeced by a scalawag lawyer to whom he had entrusted the fund. He had been released from police supervision in the spring, and moved at his own request to a small, private sanatorium which specializes in tuberculosis treatment. His health had improved wonderfully. His wife was living with him in the sanatorium. He was training under his physician, Dr. Boquet, to become a medical photographer. Yes, he was still a pacifist, but felt hopeful that if he kept his promise...
...same Japanese heat wave did the Army some good. Ablaze with patriotism, Japanese geisha girls announced that they would charge one additional yen (20?) to each patron every time he complained of the heat, the money going to the Army fund. Girls from one popular tea house had collected over $100 by week's end. Heat, patriotism and disability caused Shimezo Maho, Tokyo merchant, to jump into the cold Pacific off the island Oshinta, leaving his $3,000 life insurance policy also to the Army fund...
...Square Garden in 18 years. But the final spurt which sent him on his way to becoming top man in U. S. fight promotion began in 1934 when Madison Square Garden, longtime promoter of at least one annual boxing match for Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies, decided to discontinue that practice. Asked if he would stage a fight for the Milk Fund, Mike Jacobs, No. 1 Manhattan ticket speculator for a decade, promptly formed the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, became a fight promoter in opposition to the Garden. In 1935, after signing...
...This hypothetical endowment is twice the size of Yale's new $10,000,000 Childs Fund (TIME, July 5), and ten times bigger than any other for like purpose...