Word: receipts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding connoisseur and collector of paintings. Many a Harvard law student is aided by the Max Epstein Loan Fund. The University of Chicago has a Max Epstein Dispensary and Social Hall. Lately Mr. Epstein combined his hobby and his philanthropy. Last fortnight the University of Chicago announced receipt from him of $1,000,000 for an art center where esthetic history and theory will be studied and taught, pundits will lecture, exhibitions will be held. The building will stand near the University's resplendent new chapel, upon the plans for which a great U. S. artist-the late Bertram...
While members of the country's moneyed classes ponder sadly over the safety of financial investments, there seems to be no fear as to the advisability of investment in academical institutions. Columbia University has just announced the receipt of over a million dollars from various gifts and bequests...
...released the letter to the press. President Hoover never saw the letter because when it reached the White House Secretary George Akerson sent it back to Prof. Flury with these words: "This office no longer receives letters addressed to the President which are given publicity prior to their receipt and acknowledgement. . . . The Office of the President is entitled to the same courtesy that is universally accorded between ladies and gentlemen...
...completely unspiced. He knew that Henry Ford had promised, after the War, to return all his Wartime profits to the government; that he had supposed scruples against accepting War profits. The reporter wrote the Secretary of the Treasury, and was informed that "the Treasury records do not show the receipt of any such donation." The incident is glossed over. There is no mention of other scandals...
...sidetracked to the "proper department" without seeing the President; 2) those who get in by mistake will be ushered out a back door to the South Grounds, will be kept away from lobby newsmen; 3) letters addressed to the President and given to the press in advance of their receipt at the White House, will never reach the President, will never get a presidential reply...