Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift to the Food Relief Committee," Bruno Walter, musical adviser to the New York Philharmonic Society, will lecture informally on Mozart's "Magic Flute" in Kirkland House Junior Common Room March 26 at 5 o'clock...
...first woman professor in the 312-year history of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will be appointed shortly as the result of a $250,000 gift to the University by Samuel Zemurray, president of the United Fruit Company...
Zemurray's gift, as announced yesterday by Wilbur K. Jordan, president of Radcliffe College, established a chair to be know as the Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe professorship. The presentation was made in honor of the donor's son, a Business School graduate killed in the war, and his sister, a graduate of Radcliffe...
Between rounds of the fight, Congress: ¶Sent to the White House a bill to exempt from federal taxation the $8.5 million Rockefeller gift...
...never too hungry to weight the bread before them alongside the future of their country or what they believe in? Is simple, vocal gratitude the sole aim of the effort? Does the American mentality ignore the psychology of charity so thoroughly that it would deem the American label on gift-food as the ultimate form of good-will missionarying? In this lone sense, Americans who demand formal notes of appreciation, or their equivalents in favors and concessions, are in great danger of becoming the suckers of America's second try at European emergency relief...