Word: funds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concerning the recent episode, the editor also reported that 'the financial pressure (from alumni) which President Baxter opposes is more powerful than might seem at first glance. We are in the midst of a fund drive for $2,500,000 and having a hard time getting...
Over $600 has already been collected for the fund. The interest on the whole amount $400 per annum will be used to defray operating expenses, for which the debaters have been hard-pressed this year. Most of the funds for the present season came from gifts, forcing the club to work on a shoe-string basis...
...research conducted by Dr. Hertz and others which led to the Radioactive Isotope Research Institute, was financed by a grant from the John and Mary Markle Fund in New York City and the Milton N. Proctor Fund here. Most of the work was done at the Massachusetts General Hospital and at M.I.T...
...More Rice Pudding. So Hagueism became a memory. Rice Pudding Day (when city, county and state job holders kicked back 3% of their annual salaries to a Boss Hague "campaign fund"), the fixed ballot boxes, the voting of the dead, the bullyboys beating up poll watchers, the cops swinging nightsticks on labor organizers-all that became history...
...built the National Geographic Society to a reserve fund of $10 million, mostly from the Geographic's tax-free earnings (it is classed as an educational institution). Besides the magazine, the society also publishes books, bulletins and maps, maintains a 20,000-volume library, sponsors geographic lectures and underwrites scientific expeditions. Grateful explorers have named after Grosvenor a Greenland sea shell, an Antarctic mountain range, an Alaskan lake, a Chinese plant and a Peruvian fish...