Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filled him in on the Paris Conference, the President blocked out his speech for opening the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Between routine appointments Harry Truman posed for a new portrait by British Artist Frank 0. Salisbury, commissioned by former Ambassador to Russia Joseph E. Davies as a gift to Mrs. Truman...
...most of Western Europe. This Christmas almost all of TIME's more than a quarter of a million civilian subscribers and newsstand buyers outside the U.S. can use their local currencies (kronor, piastres, rupees, bolivars, etc.) to buy their own subscriptions or to send TIME as a gift to a friend any place in the world where U.S. periodicals can be mailed...
There was more than a British angle to Kenyon's first money raising effort. Founder Chase's original $30,000 for Kenyon was, in fact, the gift of a British group including Lords Kenyon and Gambier (Henry Clay, having met and liked Lord Gambier at the Treaty of Ghent negotiations, gave Chase a letter of introduction to him). Because of this backing, and because Kenyon's first building had walls four feet thick, surrounding frontier settlers suspected the college of being a British fort. Kenyon's ultimate response was the turning out of such stanch...
Back in Shakopee, Moriarty has a mother who is as energetic as he is. He wrote her asking if she could get a few friends to send gift parcels for the boys at Christmas. Mrs. Moriarty put the story in Shakopee's local paper. The agencies picked it up, and from all over the U.S. Moriarty got 35,000 letters asking for the boys' addresses. Said he, "I never saw anything like...
Last week a new pair of ravens, Cora & Corax, the gift of a Welsh farmer, arrived at the Tower. With their wings clipped and their feathers preened, they will make their public debut this week...