Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the guests was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who made a conditional gift of $5,000,000 to the Business School last Thursday. The condition is that the school must match the sum by July 1, 1950. It was Rockefeller's first visit to the School...
Rockefeller's pledge was made on condition that it be matched by another $5,000,000 in gifts or pledges from others by July 1, 1950. Rockefeller said that the gift expressed his conviction that the Business School was making "most significant and objective contribution . . . to raise the technical standards and to broaden the sense of social responsibility of the leaders of business...
With remarkable skill, this single-cylinder fantasy has somehow been kept in motion by Director Lloyd Bacon (Mother-Is a Freshman) and Writer Valentine Davies (Miracle on 34th Street), who apparently have a gift for making a fairly funny movie out of a downright silly idea. Even so, without the sly comedy sense of Veteran Milland and the pug-faced antics of Paul Douglas, Every Spring could easily have struck out in the second reel...
...Professor Romans' course in Social Relations 1b. While the lecturer was in the process of summarizing the important points of the year's work, a bearish character dashed onto the New Lecture Hall platform, interrupting with a shout. "Professor Romans has said enough!" In the pretense of presenting a gift (in the form of a neatly ribboned box, which later proved empty) this individual seized control of the lectern and proceeded to read four pages of unhumerous and disgusting parody. His arrogance survived even the dismay of Professor Romans, the boos and the shouts of contempt and disapproval of some...
Leaving Berlin after four years, General Lucius D. Clay, commander of the U.S. occupation forces, got a parting gift from Berlin's city fathers: they voted to change the name of the street he lived on from Im Dol to Claystrasse...