Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inception of the movement at Princeton was received hilariously all over the country as a clever joke relieving the midwinter monotony on Prospect Street. It rapidly expanded to two hundred posts with twenty-two thousand members. Gold Star Mothers and Foreign Correspondents of Future Wars were invented. Buttonholed pedestrians on New York streets jovially contributed quarters. But it was all in the same hilarious spirit, and eagerly backed up by a press that is always ready to play up any college joke...
Beyond this, the eight thousand men who contributed last year suggests the almost universal appreciation, by Harvard graduates, of the value of education in the social scheme, and the equally universal desire to improve and assist education at Harvard, no matter how hardly come by or how relatively small the token. Support of privately-endowed education must be more than material. It must have social and psychological props, and the thousands contributing illustrate the soundness of its foundation...
...thousand gun salute to that brilliant Princeton brain which conceived the idea of organizing the Veterans of Future Wars, and the short-lived sister organization, the Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars (TIME, March...
...settle down somewhere to do the work they like best. In Manhattan the $4,700,000 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed in 1925 by Mining Tycoon Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, was ready to give its 1937 Fellows $115,000 with no strings attached. Two thousand dollars was the average stipend...
...thousand sleuths could comb the town...