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...Foundation by former United States Senator and Mrs. Guggenheim five years ago to 295. The Foundation is a memorial to a son of the founders and its purpose in the words of Senator Guggenheim's Letter of Gift is to "advance human achievement by aiding students to push forward the boundaries of understanding and enrich human life by aiding them in the cultivation of beauty and taste". In accordance with these purposes the Foundation offers Fellowships, tenable abroad under the freest possible conditions for research in any field of knowledge and for creative work in any of the fine arts...
...past, the greatest obstacle that has faced the spread of education has been its geographical restriction to certain areas. To overcome this obstacle and, "to push forward the boundaries of understanding" beyond the University and the large city is the aim of Senator Guggenheim's Memorial Foundation. This year's inclusion of the first Latin American Fellows further broadens the scope of an endowment already open to all kinds of creative workers and emphasizes the international aspect of art literature and scholarship...
...country and certainly 43,000,000 of them are at work." Then he gave his figures a political twist: "The workers of the country need the passage of the Tariff Act to remove uncertainty. . . . Delays in tariff legislation are more responsible today for creating unemployment than any other factor. Push the building program, pass the Tariff Bill and our worker will find employment...
...though he took little exercise after he was 45, one day when he was 80 he caught 148 fish. In national politics an unfailing Republican, in local politics he was an independent. "His farewell handshake was courtesy and geniality itself, at the same time it was a gentle push toward the door...
...numbers of British and U. S. financiers decided that Abdul the Damned's heirs had a good case in international law. With the understanding that they were to receive a fat slice of any funds paid to Abdul's heirs, they successively organized three corporations to push the legal battle: Anglo-Hellenic Corp., succeeded by Valideh Trust, Ltd., and finally Aegean Financial Trust. † Not satisfied with last week's 50 millions from Greece, officials of the Aegean Financial Trust announced that they had every hope of obtaining an additional billion for their clients from the Kingdom...