Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gore flew down to Puerto Rico last year was an evil one. Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he opportunely flung on the Roosevelt bandwagon had failed to endow blunt, bald Mr. Gore with the tact and resource required of peppery Puerto Rico's Governor...
...Horst Wessel Song." But in life Horst Wessel was merely "one of many" original brownshirts. Because Horst Wessel wrote a song and happened to be one of the Browns killed by the Reds he has grown great in Death. But his life scarcely makes good enough cinema material to endow with the mighty name HORST WESSEL. As released last week Hans Westmar, One of Many goes lighter on the Jews, heavier on the Communists than did Horst Wessel. It is definitely militaristic - at a time when all Chancellor Hitler's words are of Peace. "You must be Good Europeans...
...last great undertaking launched under Dr. Lowell's presidency. Although mentioned in his reports as far back as 1929, the plan was not finally realized until January 9, 1933, when the University announced its receipt of an anonymous gift of about $1,000,000 to establish and endow the Society...
...already been entrusted to suitably selected scholars In different parts of the world who will now be enabled to complete their task without being troubled by pecuniary anxiety. Under the terms of his will Dr. Loeb has provided a sum of $300,000 (*60,000 at par) to endow an institution to be called the Loeb Classical Library Foundation to carry on the noble work of which he was the originator and most generous patron. The foundation is to be placed under the supervision of three trustees, and when the classical library has been completed the income of the endowment...
Whom asked to compare the drawings of the two artists Durer and Holbein the Younger, Dr. Kuhn said that in his opinion Holbein's portraits were completely objective, very exact, and distinctly unemotional, whereas Durer always attempted to endow his subject with a personal touch, almost an appearance of pent-up emotion...