Word: sums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Scotchman, spent time and money attempting to gain retrial and release for one Oscar Slater, Edinburgh Jew, jailed on a murder charge. Sir Arthur guaranteed $5,000 for Slater's retrial, paid $1,500 of that sum himself. Year ago Slater was retried, released, awarded $30,000 government compensation for his long jail term. Last week Scot Doyle, still unable to collect his $1,500, remarked: "Slater is not a murderer but an ungrateful dog, and I think the Scottish nation should repay me." Prosperous, clad in voluminous plus-fours, smoking a fat cigar, Oscar Slater received newsgatherers...
...June 1, 1907, President Eliot announced at the Detroit meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs that the university proposed to establish a graduate school for training in business. With a grant of $12,500 a year for five years from the Rockefeller Foundation and with an equal annual sum secured by Professor Taussig from friends of the cause, the Corporation was enabled on March 30, 1908, to establish the Graduate School of Business Administration. It opened its doors to students in September...
President Eliot believed that, by the end of the five-year period for which the modest but adequate sum had been raised, the school would have so clearly demonstrated its usefulness that its future permanent support would be ensured. When asked if he meant to apply both quantitative and qualitative tests to such a measure of success, he answered firmly: "Both." I demurred, insisting that at least fifteen years, rather than five years, would be required to settle the foundations of such an enterprise, and that after the first experimental period much larger financial support would be required. Making light...
...Then someone had a brain wave. The hitherto undiscovered means of giving us the sum we needed was discovered. At midnight our demands were accepted and the conference saved...
...London potent Baron Melchett (Alfred Moritz Mond), one of the foremost British industrial tycoons, pledged ?5000 ($25,000) to feed and succor the hundreds of Palestine Jews burnt out of their homes or left orphaned, widowed, destitute. London Bankers James A. de Rothschild quickly followed with a like sum. So did Manhattan's Felix Warburg, who was in London. A fourth $25,000 was pledged by Chicago's Julius Rosenwald, and a fifth by Manhattan's Nathan Straus. Before the week was out, Mr. Straus had doubled his $25,000 pledge and lesser contributions from world Jewry...