Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a more specific plan, stemming in part from the FORTUNE studies, and consisting of 14 carefully integrated recommendations, was ready. Its author: Cleveland's Business Engineer Robert Heller. Its sponsor: the nonprofit, nonpolitical National Planning Association. Its most sensational recommendation: raise Congressmen's salaries from $10,000 a year...
...scholarly studies are regarded as textbooks for the business. Smaller firms are Ward, Wells & Dreshman, and Tamblyn & Brown (out of fund-raising and into public relations exclusively for the duration). Together these Manhattan firms have raised over $2,000,000,000 for nonprofit causes. They have had to be patient, elusive and resourceful, with the corporate manners of an undertaker and the understanding of a Freud. Once, when Tamblyn & Brown were getting nowhere with a drive for Williams College, they happened to print a part of the College song, The Mountains, in a pamphlet. Checks fluttered in. When Horace Dutton...
...Advertising Council last fortnight withdrew its support from Surgeon General Thomas Parran's campaign against venereal disease. The council is a nonprofit organization of advertising men which prepares the publicity and posters for such drives as WAC recruiting and war bonds. It helped the venereal disease cam paign at the request of OWI and the U.S. Public Health Service. It stopped cooperating at the request of conservative groups of Roman Catholics. (Surgeon General Parran is himself a Catholic...
Bush's army consists of 6,000 of the top U.S. scientists. They work on assigned jobs, under nonprofit contracts, in some 300 university and industrial laboratories. Their pay is their normal laboratory salaries. They get no royalties, no bonuses, no medals. Their work is surrounded with fantastic secrecy. When they meet for group talks, the meeting place is first searched from cellar to attic for eavesdroppers. Clerical workers often do not know even the name of the weapon being developed in their own laboratory. A few supersecret projects are carried on in isolated, walled villages which...
Disgusted Donors. Bulk purchasers of the pamphlet, in addition to the Y.M.C.A., included the National Smelting Co., the Junior League, the Federal Council of Churches, the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Said the liberal, nonprofit Public Affairs Committee, which publishes The Races of Mankind: "We have had no complaints; many servicemen have written for extra copies for buddies." The Y.M.C.A. said it would distribute its remaining 10,000 copies to civilian groups. Other reactions were not so measured...