Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kindergarten-to-college private Progressive school, is operated by Columbia University's Teachers College. It was started in 1917 when Dr. Abraham Flexner, now director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and harvard's late, great Charles W. Eliot got G. E. B. to put up the money. Later G. E. B. gave Teachers College a $3,000,000 endowment to run Lincoln and a building to house it. Lincoln School became so exemplary an institution that many a bigwig, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., sent his children there. The thousands of teachers who came to Teachers College...
...phase of the investigation concerns Teachers College's management of Lincoln's G. E. B. endowment. Terms of the grant leave T. C. free to use the money as it sees fit for experiments in elementary and secondary education. But Lincoln's parents and Dr. Flexner hold T. C. to be morally bound to use it for Lincoln School. They were shocked to learn that T. C. had spent part of the endowment for research not connected with the school, for salaries of professors nominally but not actually on Lincoln's staff. It was estimated that...
...Fair has Broadway limping about in rags. Last month within a few days more casts petitioned Actors' Equity Association to be allowed to take cuts than at any other time in Equity's history; and most of the shows, even on reduced expenses, had to fold. Smart money predicted that only eight of Broadway's 16 shows can. survive the summer...
...Paris last week telephone users were urged to "Save your time, your money, your memory and your nerves." How? By renting a clever little gadget for automatic telephone dialing. The device, called the "Mémophone," is a mechanism which works independently of the ordinary telephone dial. On top of a small box is an indicator table, with room for 30 names. To call a number, you move the indicator opposite the name you want, press a lever, and the works inside the box then do the dialing...
...president and co-founder (with his three brothers) of one of Mexico's most important native-owned airlines, the Compania Transportes Aéreos de Chiapas. Last year it carried approximately 17,000 passengers, 18,000 Ibs. of mail, 3,000,000 Ibs. of freight, made enough money to double its equipment. It now has 28 ships of a half-dozen makes, 14 pilots. Sarabia considers his airline worth about a million dollars...