Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clout on his own to get the Government to make thousands of dollars worth of improvements on the property that were charged off to "security," including a $388.78 exhaust fan for the fireplace. It was Frank DeMarco, Kalmbach's partner, who helped arrange Nixon's controversial gift to the nation of his vice-presidential papers, a donation that the President claimed as a $482,000 deduction on his income tax returns...
...handkerchiefs or coats. "Most of us used handkerchiefs," said Howard Stone, a full-time U.J.A. official in New York City. "It was easier to peek that way." Cracked one American as the bus drove off: "Now remember, you are only required to disclose your name, last year's gift and this year's pledge." Others started whistling Let My People...
...writers have combed their own lives for meaning more assiduously than Anne Morrow, the shy, highborn girl who married Charles A. Lindbergh at the height of his fame. Her books range from North to the Orient to Gift from the Sea. At their best they establish her as a womanly writer of considerable skill and restraint and justly give her a stature apart from her role as the Lone Eagle's wife. "Damn, damn, damn," she once confided to her diary. "I am sick of being this handmaid to the Lord...
Alan E. Heimert '49 said he was unaware of any rule prohibiting the acceptance of unsolicited gifts, and Bok, who said he was similarly unaware, approved the gift. Sources said the donor, Alan J. Newmark '50, a New York attorney, was unwilling to give the money to the College as a whole...
...ruling, although coupled to commitments to help raise money for comparable programs in other Houses, leaves unresolved the serious questions of resource allocation raised by the Eliot gift. For if Houses are now to be allowed to initiate their own programs, the older, more established Houses would have an edge in tapping their alumni for funds...