Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Bender then told the Class, which he called "the most promising" to be graduated from any college this year, that "Harvard deserves your support, which doesn't necessarily' mean your money...
...Harvard, like any great privately supported university, badly needs money: but Harvard will accept no gift on the condition, express or implied that it shall compromise its tradition of freedom...
...local oil baron (Lloyd Gough) whom she holds responsible for the death of her father. While trying to beat him at his own game, she succeeds in developing oil wells by the dozen, and presently finds that her lust for vengeance has turned into a lust for money and power. Meanwhile, her emotional life develops a three-way split between her loyalty to a rich Indian suitor (Pedro Armendariz), her love for her young geologist partner (Robert Preston), and her new-found infatuation for Oilman Gough...
...missed few bets. At night, before locking up, Penney always looked up & down the street so as not to lock out any late customers. By the end of his first year he had grossed $28,898.11-big money for a whistle stop. Soon Penney had surplus cash to buy stores in other towns, looked around for likely local partners. By 1912, he had 34 stores, grossing $2,000,000 a year...
...Squeaky Burwell heard that CAB was ready to wash him out. It vetoed his request for permanent travel routes. But all CAB decisions on overseas certificates are subject to a White House O.K. Burwell turned himself into a one-man lobby in Washington. A loyal Democrat who had raised money for Harry Truman in the 1948 campaign, he buttonholed 24 Senators, nine Representatives and 51 Administration officials. Then he had a chat with Harry Truman, told him: "If a man's in a hurry he takes an ordinary airline; if he wants to kill two weeks he takes...