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Largely as a result of this work, McCormick was a recipient of one of the 2002 Distinguished Achievement Awards celebrating the humanities, which are given by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The award includes a $1.5-million grant...
Roughly $24 million out of the $250 million fundraising initiative in 1979 was dedicated to the establishment of the Core. Of that amount $1.25 million came from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...
...University specifically asked for funds to hire junior faculty in the humanities because the Mellon Foundation has traditionally supported instruction and research in humanities fields...
...unexampled simplicity of the manipulations is enlightening. Perhaps the vadir of corruption lay in Allegheny County where the Mellon interests obtained a majority for Senator Pepper. For "watchers" at the polls, the campaigners spent some $350,000 to hire some 35,000 men. Since the total vote for Pepper was but 80,000, it is obvious that, had these party hirelings carried with them only one family vote beside their own, almost all the votes cast for Pepper could be said to have been bought. This is the large scale, the breath-taking exaggeration, the emergency operation of American habits...
After all, it's women--from Mellon to fans like Catherine Zeta-Jones and Halle Berry--who put Jimmy Choo on the map. And with 25 new stores set to open by 2005, the red carpet is not the only place where you will be seeing this footprint. --By Camilla Morton