Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sixth Fleet, dispatched to the Eastern Mediterranean to "hold up the hand" of Jordan's King Hussein against his enemies, churned the waters from Syria to Egypt in a dramatic display of U.S. might. At the same time Jordan requested-and Washington immediately supplied-a $10 million grant to strengthen young King Hussein's struggle to rid his country of Communists and pro-Nasser extremists. Key Jordanian stipulation, to which the U.S. readily agreed: the U.S. money must be explicitly separate from doctrine funds. Moreover, said King Hussein, Jordan "had no intention" of inviting Richards to discuss...
There was disagreement among the 475 Presbyterian delegates on the segregation issue, but when a minority report was offered, suggesting that racial problems be referred to member parishes, it was turned down. Most of the delegates left the assembly in the militant mood of Dr. Edward D. Grant, director of institutions for the state of Louisiana. Said Grant: "Pity the church that keeps silent and looks the other way in a day like ours...
...grant will cover tuition and the other major expenses of the Hungarian for the three years here. He may be selected "in a week or ten days," Carl Kaysen, associate professor of Economics, and chairman of the House interviewing committee, said yesterday. The grant was made after the donor had heard that the House raised, of its own accord, $1700 to support Gyorgy Heimler, a student refuges from Budapest...
After some negotiation with the U.S. Trust Company of New York, representing the benefactor, the donor agreed to extend the grant so that Heimler's major expenses will also be covered during his three years at the University. The gift was donated "on the condition that the Hungarian be chosen by a Kirkland House committee and reside in Kirkland House," Taylor said...
...next six years President Lowell twice appealed to a large foundation for the $1.5 million he judged necessary for the establishment of a Society of Fellows. Both times his request was turned down as being inconsistent with the grant policy of the foundation. Finally, in 1932, Lowell announced that the requisite funds had been provided by an "anonymous donor" --who later was revealed to have been none other than Lowell himself. In his own private account of the Society's founding, Lowell records his failure to secure other financial sponsorship of the project, and then goes...