Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-collar idle. If every man, woman & child in Providence, Birmingham, Dallas, Akron, Oklahoma City and Omaha were on relief they would approximately equal the number of persons in New York City now living on government bounties. They number 1,400,000- one-fifth the total population.* To support them costs about $20,000,000 per month, of which the city supplies onefourth, the State onefourth, the Federal Government one-half. About 17% of them are aliens or people who have taken out their first papers. Only 120,000 of them work for their relief pay, and of these only...
...this new policy to place our athletic program on the same basis as the other activities of the University which are largely supported by endowment. The President and Fellows have agreed that they will endeavor to build up during the coming years an endowment fund for athletics,--a capital fund, the income of which will eventually become the support of intercollegiate and intramural sports. Gifts for this fund will be welcomed and it is expected that each year the Corporation will be able to set aside some money towards this fund...
...specific, during the coming year the budget will be reduced by some $20,000 which can be found, Mr. Bingham assures me, by drastic economics but without eliminating support of any of the present programs except golf, and it is expected that similar economics can realize an additional saving of an equal sum during the two years following. Further than this, in the course of the three years following the present academic year, financial support will be withdrawn from the following six minor sports: cross country, lacrosse, soccer, wrestling, boxing, and fencing, and these sports will...
...should like to emphasize the fact that the intramural sports and in particular inter-House athletics will be fostered as before. Even those minor intercollegiate sports from which support will be withdrawn may well continue on an intramural basis...
When the United States refused in 1919 to join the League of Nations, its refusal had positive as well as negative implications. Our insistence on full neutral rights would, of necessity, have conflicted with the projected League policy of blockading aggressors. It was this possibility that caused English support of the League to cool and in particular explained her refusal to sign the guarantee treaty desired by France at that time. The present crisis, which may force the British into a more vigorous stand, coupled with a possible change in American policy (foreshadowed by some of Mr. Roosevelt's statements...