Word: honorariums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, Swedish Prime minister Olaf Palme lectured at Harvard, but declined to accept his $5000 honorarium. Four months later his son received a scholarship at the Kennedy School for approximately $5000. This seemingly obscure data caused a major furor in Sweden this summer as members of the Swedish news media charged the Prime Minister had committed tax fraud by backhandedly trying to secure the scholarship for his son. Opponents of Palme charged that by refusing a highly taxable fee for the speech, he intended to defer the money for a tax-free study grant for his son. Both Palme...
...position carries a $1,000 honorarium and an appointment as a visiting Nieman Fellow. The fellowships allow journalists to study for a year at Harvard...
...touch of bitterness and pride. He is not ready to grant the University--or anyone else but his own friends--even a crumb of credit for the slow rise of the Harvard Semitic Museum during the 1970s. Gavin himself has never received anything more than an annual $300 honorarium from the University. His own salary, and virtually every penny the museum has spent in the last 10 years has been raised by his own efforts...
Based on interviews with 36 people in Japan and the U.S., the FBI probe of the $1,000 honorarium showed that "there is no evidence that the money was intended for Allen or was kept by Allen for a corrupt purpose." According to the Justice Department's summary of the investigation, Chizuko Takase, wife of a longtime business associate of Allen's, asked his help on the magazine interview with Mrs. Reagan. Allen passed on the request to the Reagan transition officials in charge of scheduling, recommending that the interview be granted if the First Lady...
...deciding that $1,000 should be given to Mrs. Reagan if she agreed to an interview, Mrs. Takase and two women working for the Japanese magazine flew to Washington. The three drew $10,000 from the magazine's funds to cover their trip expenses as well as the honorarium. That explains a $10,000 notation found on the envelope that Allen had received. The interview, which lasted for ten minutes at most, took place in the White House on Jan. 21. One of the Japanese women gave Mrs. Reagan a lacquer box (valued at $75), which she turned over...