Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weariness. Once he blooped that President Eisenhower "has been stacking the National Labor Relations Board with pro-labor people"; another time, that "the Republicans are winning Maine." At the Cleveland Steer Roast, 40,000 people turned out to hear him drone on aimlessly comparing the administrations of Eisenhower and Grant for an hour ("When Estes is tired," confided an aide, "he just can't stop talking...
...from this tuition hike will be funnelled back to needy scholarship students whose scholastic records merit such assistance. Griswold emphasized the fact that every possible effort will be made to see that scholarship students may continue to receive the necessary financial aid on a one-half loan, one-half grant-in-aid basis...
Slightly more than half of the "accomplishment grant" awarded to the University by the Ford Foundation in December will be used to finance the professorships. The grant, given in recognition of earlier steps to improve faculty salaries here, totalled $1,500,000. The Foundation also donated $3,000,000 for an endowment to increase present faculty salaries...
Bushy-bearded Bachelor George Hoiden Tinkham, unreconstructed Republican Congressman from Massachusetts who died last month at 85 after valiantly though unsuccessfully battling child-labor reform, left $2,000,000 to the Judge Baker Child Guidance Center in Boston, the largest single grant ever given to any organization dedicated to child psychology...
Ever since, business has been booming, though Gentili has been blacklisted by the U.S., and the Italian government refuses to grant him import or export licenses. He has built a fortune by arranging deals between China and Italian suppliers. Through Gentili they ship textiles, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and other nonstrategic items, although the Milan right-wing daily, La Patria, charged that Contact Man Muratori is "a notorious trafficker in strategic materials to the Soviet bloc." Gentili repays the Reds doubly for his virtual monopoly by pouring much of his profit into the treasury of the Communist-lining Italian Socialist Party...