Word: largesse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acting chairman at meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Though he would have no vote, his prestige and winning ways were expected to help solve such nagging disputes as the Navy's air role, the strategic demands of the Pacific, the allocation of military largess to signers of the proposed North Atlantic pact...
...King alone drinks champagne, and a flunky keeps his cup filled all day. When the spirit moves him, his majesty throws largess in the form of coconuts; Louis has stocked more than 2,000 of them. Waiting for him on a reviewing stand in front of the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home stands the Zulus' Queen (this year, attractive, brown-skinned Bernice Oxley, ticket taker at the Ace Theater). In a room where the caskets have been pushed back to the wall, she receives her lord's champagne toast. After the parade the long night of jazz-filled...
...unionists, hearing hard-luck stories and doling out advice and aid. A battery of secretaries is always on hand to take notes and handle a voluminous correspondence. In the afternoons, after a quick lunch with Perón, Evita is on her rounds again, visiting factories, addressing workers or distributing largess in the best bread-&-circus style...
According to the corporation's annual report, the late steel master Andrew Carnegie's onetime average $6,000,000 annual largess to U.S. colleges and universities, which once constituted 6.6% of their total income, has now shrunk to a piddling $58,000 (about .009%). One reason was that the corporation diverted much of its income to the Red Cross, the National War Fund and international-relations projects. Another was that U.S. colleges and universities are much richer than they used to be. In a typical recent year (1940), their income exceeded $630,000,000. Finally, the Government sources...
...couple of student songs for Tannenbaum College (of this institution of learning, Ruby characteristically notes: "A feudal Icrd scattering largess among the peasants as he rides through the village in a coach-and-four is a philanthropist. The fact that the peasants are the source of his ill-gotten wealth makes no difference; he is a philanthropist. Which brings us around to the story of Carlyle Beasley, founder of Tannenbaum College. Beasley, like Huntington, Crocker, Stanford and Hopkins, made his vast fortune out of the railroad business. He was the owner of the Rappaport and Western Railroad, formerly known...