Word: mohonk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already given $125,000, Edward S. Harkness $100,000, and other rich men enough money to make up $536,000. Of this $100,000 had to be spent last year to pay the expenses of world cancer authorities who came to the International Symposium on Cancer Control at Lake Mohonk, N. Y., last September (TIME, Oct. 4) and to solicit more donations...
...Society for the Control of Cancer, loped about Europe with a bundle of banknotes in his hand. In certain capitals he stopped to search out a professor eminent for cancer researches and to invite the personage to a first International Symposium on Cancer Control to be held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. If, as did happen, the man he wanted hesitated over the expenses of a trans-atlantic voyage, Dr. Soper (he is a doctor of philosophy) was prepared to press expense money upon him, a bit of the $10,000 which John D. Rockefeller had donated last spring...
...Rockefeller Jr. last week gave $125,000 unconditionally toward the $1,000,000 endowment fund of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Also he gave $10,000 to help defray expenses of U. S. and European cancer specialists at a cancer congress next September at Lake Mohonk...
Some years ago a man, not altogether averse to prominence at the Lake Mohonk peace conferences, offered $100 to the student in any American college who would write the best essay on the peace cause. With a great flourish of trumpets, the donor himself making a magnificent speech, the $100 was finally awarded. Statistics showed that if the prize had been divided equally among the contestants each would have received 82 cents for his labors. Of course, the contest may have been an aid to forceful writing, but the chances are that the same results could have been accomplished through...