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Last week, the University of Chicago acknowledged the receipt of a new medical research foundation. Some $800,000 in securities had already been turned over, with a promise of $200,000 more in short order, by one Mr. Douglas Smith of Chicago. Mr. Smith is not a doctor, nor is he an invalid to whom the advancement of medicine would have had a special and intimate interest. A hale, hearty, portly man, much given to golf, a familiar in North Shore society, Mr. Smith is by profession a promoter. Yet it was a most appropriate thing for Mr. Smith...
...With ten dollars in my pocket, with a change in the weather which permitted bicycle riding, and with the receipt of a check for evening school work, the financial burden of four years suddenly be- came light, and I was able to enter the activities of the last few months with perfect freedom...
...That the payment of $100,000 (made without security, carried in a black satchel instead of conveyed in the usual channels, concerning which no records were kept and having for receipt a note with its signature torn off) was "contra bonos mores," "a fraud upon the United States," "a colossal infamy regardless of whether it was a bribe, a gift or a loan...
...said Mr. Steed, "is Premier Stanley Baldwin and it is well known that he did impose a levy upon himself and that the Treasury acknowledged receipt of ?150,000 of the War loan for cancellation." His example, however, only inspired others to the amount of ?350,000, a total...
...following the receipt of this letter, Mr. Beck addressed the Five O'Clock Dinner Club in Philadelphia, city of his nativity. Without rancor he spoke of his life...