Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsuccessfully to get an introduction, seized the bull by the horns by marching straight into the Harkness office. How much, calmly asked Mr. Harkness, did Lawrenceville want? Twelve days later Headmaster Heely returned with his sleek head full of ideas, got Edward S. Harkness' promise to erect and endow a new administration building, split two old classroom buildings into 49 conference rooms fitted out with oval tables, easy chairs and rugs, hire enough new teachers to make the Plan work...
Colorado Springs' No. 1 philanthropist and art-lover is Mrs. Fred Morgan Pike Taylor, a broker's widow, a St. Louis sack-&-bag man's daughter, who gave the Fine Arts Center $600,000 for a building, enough to endow it with $100,000 a year. Designed by Architect John Gaw Meem of Santa Fe, it is massive, severely functional...
...questionnaires sent to Big Businessmen, the Committee was able to show that the Crusaders, the Liberty League and kindred bodies had many a mutual friend who was ready to play his antipathy to the Roosevelt Administration all the way across the board. Ironically, the list of men who endow the New Deal's Opposition was found to include many a bigwig who belonged to the group that Herbert Hoover still thinks ruined his Administration...
...years Harvard has been looking for a millionaire to endow a Graduate School of Public Administration. The late great President Charles William Eliot first had the idea for such a school but alumni were apathetic. His project was finally converted into the gaudy, bustling School of Business, endowed with a whacking $6,000,000 by the late George Fisher Baker. So widespread was the apathy toward public service that when the New Deal created the first great demand for topnotch civil servants, no major university had a graduate school to train them. The fact that Harvard did contribute the greatest...
...chapel of Buckingham Palace. H. R. H. slipped a ring of Welsh gold over Lady Alice's finger, repeating after the Archbishop of Canterbury: "With this ring I thee wed. With my body I thee worship. And with all my worldly goods I thee endow!" At the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey that evening, a late-straying canon found a bouquet with a royal card: "From the Duchess of Gloucester." In their own special train the new Duchess and the Duke left London to honeymoon at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, a favorite country seat of the bride...