Word: funds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nerve center was on the hotel's eighth floor. There Dewey's large and highly competent staff operated. There were John Foster Dulles, adviser on foreign affairs, and Elliott Bell, state superintendent of banks and adviser on national policies. In charge of campaign fund-raising was Harold E. Talbott, onetime polo player, director of the Chrysler Corp...
John L.'s .miners were ready to begin their ten-day vacation; their present contract with the mine operators expired on July 1. Meanwhile the operators' spokesman, Ezra Van Horn, had filed suits which froze the miners' welfare and pension fund and prevented its distribution. If the contract were not signed, or the pension fund not unfrozen, John L.'s miners might not come back to work on July...
...oppressive government measures, Jewish colonies in Egypt have been donating money to the government as anxious proof of their opposition to Zionism. Last week the Egyptian government announced that Alexandria's Jews had contributed $80,000, Cairo's $160,000, to the Egyptian "Soldiers' Welfare Fund." With the bundle of checks came a message: "Greetings to Egypt and her army, and an expression of loyalty to King Farouk...
...major fussing, John L. soon made clear, was again going to be over welfare funds. With the 1947 fund blocked by court action, his miners' union was spending its 1946 purse at a rate which would exhaust it by July 1. Payments from the $26 million kitty had averaged about $2,000,000 a month; now the U.M.W. was pouring out the remaining $4,500,000 in one month. Thus John L. could cry: "If this desperately needed assistance . . . stops, as it will at the end of June unless the 1947 fund is unfrozen, it will cause a major...
...delegates came to Paris from twelve European nations that are getting aid from the U.N.'s International Children's Emergency Fund (an UNRRA successor), which is helping feed 4,000,000 children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. The anti-Communist Italian delegate interpreted for the Bulgarian comrade. On the Fund's staff are men of 13 nationalities; the director is an American; his deputy is from Tito's Yugoslavia...