Word: gift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council last week announced receipt of a notable gift: Christendom, an able theological quarterly, circulation 2,500, handed over debt-free by its publishers (Willett, Clark & Co.) to become the U.S. organ of the World Council of Churches...
News of their forthcoming departure reached 400 U. S. volunteers still fighting in the heavy Ebro engagement only by the "grapevine" route. Said one incredulous volunteer: "Don't expect too much until it comes." Revealed in Washington last week was a gift of $10,000 last July by Manhattan Financier Bernard Baruch to take 83 wounded Lincoln-Washington Battalion men home. Mr. Baruch explained : "They were willing to fight for something they believed in and I had the money to bring them home when they got hurt...
...another motor-maker, Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, who, now 71, made his first car in 1895, competes with Nuffield for the nebulous honor of being called "the Henry Ford of England." In 1936 Austin gave Cavendish $1,250,000. Some of the equipment made possible by this gift has been completed and more is under...
Through the Progressive Education Association, it is financing films and radio programs on social problems, creating a new high-school curriculum pointed toward social change. In 1913 the huge Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations were investigated by a suspicious Congress. But today critics who looked the Rockefeller gift horse in the mouth in 1913 are sorry to lose the old animal, for G. E. B. has written its Q. E. D. under many a progressive idea...
...Sept. 14 (24), 1638, John Harvard died at Charlestown, leaving half his estate and all his books to the College. As this was by far the largest gift yet received, the College was named Harvard College by order of the General Court...