Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nonprofit, nonpartisan institution has had a profound effect on government and the economy, has helped shap-national policy under both Democratic and Republican administrations. Brookings' experts laid the groundwork for present-day government accounting procedures, worked out the present system of congressional apportionment, produced the first U.S. budget under Budget Director Charles Gates Dawes. The institution also serves as a lending library of specialized technical talent. Brookings' staffers and alumni of its graduate school have advised virtually every executive agency and congressional committee in Washington on subjects ranging from highways to health insurance. When the President...
Martindell had in mind, "they were." he says, "both astounded and doubtful." This is not surprising, for Jackson Martindell is president of New York's American Institute of Management, a nonprofit organization formed to evaluate the efficiency of business corporations, and what he had in mind was nothing less than a management analysis of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Roman Church...
Announcing in his deep, effortless voice that Lear could not go on but that Welles would, he apologized for looking more like "the man who came to dinner" than a tormented monarch. He candidly confessed that since the City Center was a nonprofit, cultural organization that needed the money, he had "come out to discourage a stampede to the box office." Only a few hundred of an estimated 2,800 present asked for refunds. The rest settled back for An Evening with Orson Welles...
...help ballyhoo a $50-a-plate benefit for Manhattan's nonprofit Actors' Studio. Cinemactor Marlon Brando, a Studio alumnus, and Hollywood Expatriate Marilyn Monroe, presently a Studio "observer," got together to make an unlikely combination that could be a hilarious bonanza at the box office. Features of next month's Studio soiree: legerdemain by Actor Orson Welles, risque-poetry reading by Playwright Tennessee Williams, "after-midnight" songs by Italy's Cinemactress Anna Magnani...
...sales: more than 10 million pairs a year. Succeeding Haas as president is Daniel E. Koshland, 63, also a San Franciscan, who joined the company in 1922, has served as vice president and treasurer. ¶ James David Zellerbach, 63, president of Crown Zellerbach Corp., was elected chairman of the nonprofit, privately sponsored Committee for Economic Development. He succeeds Meyer Kestnbaum, president of Hart Schaffner & Marx, who has resigned to become special assistant to President Eisenhower. Zellerbach was born in San Francisco, got a B.S. degree from the University of California in 1913, joined the family papermaking firm a year later...