Word: mellone
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...Founded in 1917, a clique known as the Room used the cover of international travel and scientific expeditions to gather information that it passed on to Washington and London. The Room's membership list read like the Social Register: Vincent Astor, Kermit Roosevelt, David Bruce (Andrew Mellon's son-in-law), Nelson Doubleday and a gilt edging of Wall Streeters and lawyers...
...center raised $2.4 million needed to earn the Mellon grant, as well as $1.7 million in endowment pledges and $800,000 for current use, Goldman said...
...October, 1983, the Mellon Foundation offered matching grants for research and development in Russian, Soviet and Eastern European studies to several major American universities, said James Morris, program director at the Mellon Foundation. Other recipients included Columbia, Stanford, University of California at Berkely, and Michigan...
Goldman said the Mellon Foundation gave the center a choice of two matching offers. Under the first, the center would have received $500,000 if it could raise $1 million on its own. However, the center chose the second option, raising $2.25 million to earn a $750,000 grant...
...very few can design a light plot. The ART and the unsung hero of Harvard theater, the Loeb's Don Soule, have made an effort to educate fledgling dramatists and designers in the basics, but we must admit that for training we should have gone to Yale or Carnegie-Mellon and press on without...