Word: funds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laughed for years over flouting the law, but had done little to get it off the books, growled at the severity of Hass's penalty and at the hypocrisy of other citizens who vote dry and drink wet. In Wichita, a group of businessmen started a fund to buy a new car for Scapegoat Hass. By this week they had raised more than $800 and formed a club called: "It Could Happen to Me." They hoped that the incident would help Kansas overthrow its 67-year-old prohibition law in an election next November...
Sergeant Paul Shimer was killed in action in the ETO. Last May, after his term as mayor was up, Rex Stranger hurried to the U.S. and from his own pocket took $3,000 to establish a trust fund for the education of little Patricia Ann Shimer. Grateful citizens of Chambersburg promptly acknowledged the kindness by raising another $3,000 for food for the rationed children of Southampton; the fruit growers of Franklin County stepped forward with the promise of 600 bushels of apples to add to the gift...
...work horses. Sweet but harassed rich girls prepared to make holiday debuts at Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club, San Francisco's Palace Hotel, Baltimore's Alcazar, and in many another big-city ballroom. Boise, Idaho, a city of 40,000, raised a $700,000 hospital fund...
Last week, James Petrillo pointed his stubby finger at a point they had apparently overlooked. The Taft-Hartley law prevented record companies from signing a new contract which would pay royalties to a union-administered fund-but the record companies had obligingly recorded a year's supply under the old contract. All those phonograph records to be doled out over the bleak months ahead, he thought, would net his union around...
...stopgap aid," rushed disaster relief workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...