Word: lane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fifth floor of London's Park Lane Hotel was the U. S. delegation of Jews led by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, just under their deadly enemies the Arabs, just above their equally deadly enemy, Nazi Labor Front Leader Robert...
During the past two months the Harvard Committee to Aid German Student Refugees, headed by Robert E. Lane '39, has received $11,000 from Harvard students and faculty members, and $2,300 from Harvard alumni, to pay for the living expenses of the refugee students while they attend the University. Last November the Harvard Corporation voted to establish twenty new scholarships of $500 each ($100 more than tuition fee) for qualified refugee students of any creed from Germany, provided that each scholarship be supplemented by contributions for living expenses to an amount equivalent to $500 raised by the Harvard undergraduate...
Approximately $13,300 has been raised for the support of the refugees, Lane said. Of this amount $11,000 came from the University and $2,300 from alumni in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and Virginia, to 10,000 of whom the Committee sent written appeals...
...been limited to this figure because most of the refugees are still in Europe and it was felt that the money was raised specifically for German exiles. The two or three who will work here this half-year will be symbols of next year's full program, Robert E. Lane, '39 president of the Committee, said last night...
...idea back of the Harvard refugee plan is being spread to other colleges and universities by an Intercollegiate Committee to Aid German Student Refugees, of which Lane is the head. He is going to New York this week to work at the committee's New York office...