Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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EDWARD D. ADAMS Chairman, Committee on War Memorials to American Engineers New York City The clipping: "The new library of the University of Louvain costing $2,000,000, was built entirely by American money. Those American Shylocks...
With the gymnasium already under construction and with the squash courts naturally being placed below the pool, if they are to be left out, it would be very difficult to raise the necessary money and alter the plans in time. This being the case, the logical method of avoiding the complete elimination of squash courts from the new center of Harvard will be to incorporate some in the two new Houses...
...natural outcome of a decision made last June to abandon the accustomed contribution to the New England Student Work of the Y. M. C. A. In the past the Phillips Brooks House has contributed annually the sum of $200. to this work and since a considerable portion of the money thus raised by the Y. M. C. A. has been used to defray the extra expenses of the Northfield Conference the absence of an officially designated delegation is a logical step in the sequence of events...
...Wright accomplished, great protagonist of the Wrights in France. But in France where the elder Lahm has lived in retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling horizontally to give the effect of fixed wings) and who flew it recently across the English Channel...
...Willets Davison (Central Union Trust Co., Manhattan) and Albert W. Johnston. To procure it Trustee Davison had sent his bank's Berlin representatives to Frau Einstein with an offer to buy. Frau and Dr. Einstein, having no other offers, sold (sum unmentioned). They said they would use the money for welfare work among German university students...