Word: offshoot
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Students for Stevenson is the first independent organization to support the Democratic presidential candidate at the University. There was a movement in the spring of 1952, but it was an offshoot of the Young Democrats, Edson emphasized...
...January the Fund for the Republic, a $15 million Ford Foundation offshoot, completed the first of 50-odd projects it has launched to enlighten the U.S. about its civil rights. The project, supervised by Harvard Law Professor Arthur E. Suther land: a 474-page Bibliography on the Communist Problem in the U.S., which took 18 months and $67,000 to prepare. Last week the book received scathing criticism...
...Fund for the Republic, it seemed a solid journalistic coup. The Fund, an offshoot of the Ford Foundation, had signed up the Washington Post and Times Herald's famed cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock), to make 26 15-minute TV films of news comment illustrated by his cartoons, had allocated $200,000 to put on the programs...
...Million Pocketed. The oldest bank in the U.S. operating under its original charter, the Bank of the Manhattan Co. was the offshoot of a firm chartered, with the aid of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, to build Manhattan's first waterworks, use any excess capital in "moneyed transactions." To break the Federalist Party's monopoly on New York banking, the water merchants bought (for $30,000) a house at 40 Wall Street (still the bank's address), opened for business...
...answer questions before a congressional committee. Nickell also wanted to know why in 1947 Henry had been so slow to ban the campus chapter of American Youth for Democracy. The fact that Henry did ban it as soon as the FBI made it clear that the A.Y.D. was an offshoot of the Young Communist League did not seem to faze