Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latest contribution to University coffers for the general support of the College was an unrestricted gift of $25 in cash recently received from a Chinese benefactor, Jan Quen of Jamaica Plain. Last week Quen, a Boston laundryman, walked into the office of Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the Corporation, to make a donation which included six boxes of Chinese ginger wrapped in a laundry bill...
...expected $1,000,000 gate was to go to Promoter Mike Jacobs, in payment of sums owed him by Conn and Louis, another $41,000 to pay Louis' debts to one of his co-managers, John Roxborough. Mike Jacobs looked terrible: he was to be the chief benefactor after Army Emergency Relief. Another: Yankee Stadium, which insisted on 5%, Bataan or no Bataan. But the War Department looked the worst: Secretary Stimson's own staff had cavalierly fumbled the whole affair, had made stupid promises to Louis and Conn. Example: The sportswriters were told that a representative...
...fall, producers seem as happy as clams at high tide. With a big summer behind them, they see an even bigger winter ahead; they have got back their nerve and are certain that the war, which was last season's bogey, will be this season's benefactor. They are, to be sure, playing safe, with arms outstretched toward musicals, comedies, romantic period pieces, anything labeled Escape; and thumbs pretty well down on drama. Last season's eight war-themed flops have taught them a lesson...
...special sale of War Bonds and Stamps at the U. T. last night one anonymous benefactor offered to buy a $1000 Bond if the rest of the audience would buy $1000 between them. The quota was quickly reached, bringing the total to $2400 in ten minutes...
...march around the quadrangle of the old Yard, passing the statue of John Harvard in front of University Hall on their way to the service. Following an old custom, the students in the procession will doff their academic caps in front of the statue of the College's first benefactor and namesake. Upon reaching the Church they will be ushered to the front pews, where they will sit as a body. Invited guests will fill the Church to its capacity...