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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift came to the University following the death of the last of the men who held life interests in McKay's estate. The University had already received over $7,100,000 from the estate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McKay's Estate Leaves University $8,600,000 | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

Just by way of mention, there was a $975 gift to buy Spanish Civil War newspapers and another gift of $3,000 to the "Navaho Ceremony Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Received Odd Gifts Last Year for Odd Studies of Odd Things | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

Strange donors are found on the gift lists. Last year these included the National Museum of Colombo, Ceylon, the Eagle Pencil Company, and the Revere Racing Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Received Odd Gifts Last Year for Odd Studies of Odd Things | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...Revere donation was a part of a gift to the Department of Legal Medicine from the Massachusetts Racing Association, which is made up of two greyhound and two horse racing tracks. The money is being used "for research into the detection of stimuli and sedatives in animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Received Odd Gifts Last Year for Odd Studies of Odd Things | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...vigor of his younger self. You stop and think if the stories about his being on his deathbed when he was in jail at Danbury in 1946 have any truth in them. A capable conversationalist, Curley can talk on almost any subject with the facility of a specialist, the gift of a retentive memory stands by him well. From a small amount of reading, he is able to glean and store a warehouse of facts; one of the reasons that he was so valuable in the national campaign of 1932 was because he gave such fine speeches extemporaneously...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Colorful Mayor Dominates Boston Political Operations | 10/29/1949 | See Source »

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