Word: parkinsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bicentennial, for $12,500,000, to extend its research, strengthen its teaching, build new buildings. Despite the efforts of Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner who has served the university as president since 1930 without pay, of Philadelphia Banker Joseph Wayne Jr., drive chairman, of Thomas I. Parkinson, president of Equitable Life, and of John Price Jones, high-powered professional fund raiser, the drive last week fell far short of its goal. Total raised: $5,035,000. Borne out were recent warnings by President Robert Maynard Hutchins of University of Chicago that U. S. universities faced a decline in gifts...