Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world." Term Indefinite. Then Harry Truman went back to Blair House, where he stayed awake until 11 o'clock listening to the late returns which nailed down the Demo cratic victories. Next day he confided to guests at a 64th birthday party for Secretary Charlie Ross (the prize gift: an imperial gallon of Scotch from White House reporters) that the election had been a wonderful satisfaction and that he had received even more messages of congratulation than he had after his own triumph a year...
...gift of $50,000 to the Business School by the Grant Foundation was announced last night by Dean Donald K. David. The money is to be used to assist students working for degrees and businessmen who attend the special courses of the Advance Management Training program...
...Grant gift is the first instance in which funds have specifically provided for scholastic aid to members of the Advanced Management group. The Grant Foundation, established in 1936 by William T. Grant, chairman of the board, of W. T. Grant department stores, had previously set up a scholarship fund at the Business School...
...announcing the gift Dean David said, "We are indeed grateful for this evidence of faith in the role of the Business School in our society. In view of the increasing need for scholarship and loan funds, particularly after government aid expires, such a gift is especially gratifying...
Handkerchiefs came out of purses and dabbed at eyes. Then one woman proposed a moment of silence; all the guests stood up. A few minutes later, weeping clubwomen clustered around an easel on which was displayed one of the last cartoons Helen Hokinson had drawn, a gift to the fund drive. The caption ("So Mary's working for the Community Chest too. How brave!") seemed an oddly suitable epitaph for Cartoonist Hokinson, who had died in the worst crash in U.S. airline history (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...