Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris prominent Poles said that as soon as their Government can get together enough money to keep going* it expects to remove to a small inexpensive provincial town "somewhere in Normandy." Meanwhile the Government stayed at the tiny Danube Hotel, worked last week from 7 a. m. right around the clock to 3 a. m., employed Poet Jan Lehon as its Press Officer. In London arrived Mme Josef Pilsudski, widow of the late great Marshal, "the Father of Modern Poland" whom Adolf Hitler professes to respect. Snapped the Widow Pilsudski last week: "No one believes Hitler's speeches...
...father to the telephone. We have good news." When Mr. Drouin came on, Grauer told him: "This is the Horace Heidt program. I am happy to tell you that the sponsors, the makers of Turns, are making you a present of $1,000, and we are sending you the money by Western Union. . . . This is not a joke...
...some 500 U. S. & Canadian cowboys have chosen rodeoing as a career-well aware that in an arena they may make more money in 60 seconds than they can make in a year on the range. Besides, they can buy fancy shirts and see the world. Last week, after nine months of jogging around-to Salinas, Pendleton, Cheyenne, Calgary and scores of lesser roundups-the cream of the professional cowpunchers gathered in the midst of Manhattan's skyscrapers for the climax of the season: the 14th annual World Series Rodeo in Madison Square Garden-26 days...
...Instructor Robin D. Feild last spring. Basic reason for the firings was a slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed Dr. Conant was bent on getting crack research men instead of crack teachers, because he hired big-name scholars at fancy salaries while he let brilliant young instructors of undergraduates go. Harvardmen began to think that Chemist Conant was more adept at test...
...scholars debarked in Manhattan (having had traveling expenses paid by the Rhodes fund), a Swarthmore reception committee met them at the pier, whisked them off to Swarthmore's campus, where they were fed, bedded in dormitories. The Association of American Rhodes Scholars (Rhodes alumni) promptly began to raise money to help them continue their education in the U. S. (Rhodes scholarships are good only at Oxford). Meanwhile Dr. Aydelotte asked U. S. universities whether they cared to give scholarships to his disappointed scholars...