Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steeled itself to vote down (119 to 73) a plan to pension members of Congress after 15 years' service from a fund to which they would contribute $500 per year, matched by contributions from the Treasury.* Excerpts from the debate...
Part of the object of Administrator Straus's speech was to push a bill (already passed by the Senate) to increase his loan fund by another $800,000,000, his grant-in-aid money by $45,000,000 more per year. If he could get that, Nathan Straus could be on his way to re-housing 400,000 families...
...silver were the amalgam holding together last fortnight's Senate coalition of Republicans and hard-money Democrats which furiously filibustered the Monetary Bill beyond midnight of June 30 when Franklin Roosevelt's power to pare the dollar died and with it the Treasury's exchange stabilization fund. Silver and pressure were what Franklin Roosevelt used last week to split the coalition, pass the bill, revive both fund and power...
United has still to invest the remaining $5,500,000 of its market fund, but prefers to wait a little longer-until Danzig pops or recovery clicks. Meanwhile, United's management also waits for opportunities to switch out a wad of its $144,528,214 of utility stocks, and use that capital to become an investment banker, underwriter and integrator to U. S. utilities and other major industries. If it does so, it will have enough capital to operate on a scale that will make other underwriters look puny-among them the still friendly Morgans, whose divorced Morgan, Stanley...
...quietly as he can, in a Beverly Hills house with two bedrooms and a swimming pool. Except for command appearances at Goldwyn parties and entertaining an occasional celebrity, he goes out little, devotes one evening a week to his duties on the executive committee of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. He has taken Merle Oberon out to dinner. Although he has transferred his 40-foot motor cruiser, New Moon, to a Pacific anchorage, he has left his wife in the East, keeps his voting residence in Framingham, Mass. Jimmy how first-names most of Hollywood but respectfully speaks...