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...loose change with no strings attached, the House Appropriations Committee framed a bill for $110,000,000 to be used on road building, waterways, flood control, etc., promised that the balance would be forthcoming in the routine supply measures. ¶ In New York, John Davison Rockefeller & son gave Chairman Seward Prosser's committee $1,000,000, providing 200,000 days of work for the jobless. With Edward Stephen Harkness's gift of $500,000, the committee's total passed $4,000,000. This sum was what made it possible for little knots of men to be painting...
...initial board as it stands at present follows: Dr. Thomas Barbour '06. Dr. Henry B. Bigelow '01, director, Dr. William Bowie, Dr. E. G. Conklin '26, Mr. Newcomb Carlton, Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar '95, Dr. Frank R. Lillie, president. Dr. John C. Merriam, Mr. Seward D. Prosser, Mr. Lawrason Riggs, Jr. '15, treasurer, Mr. Elihu Root, Jr. '06, Dr. Harlow Shapley, Dr. T. O. Wayland Vaughan '93. The by-laws provide for an increase in the number of trustees up to twenty-four...
...York City, with 300,000 idle, Banker Seward Prosser's committee had raised $2,512,000, given park-cleaning jobs to 10,000 Jims. Police distributed 1,500,000 Ib. of food in 65-lb. portions...
...Received a petition that he submit U. S. membership in the World Court to the Senate for ratification. Among many notable petitioners were: John Joseph Pershing, Julius H. Barnes, Roy Wilson Howard, Felix M. Warburg, Jane Addams, Newton Diehl Baker, Seward Prosser, Matthew Woll, Fred John Fisher, Edward A. Filene, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Herbert Bayard Swope, Silas Hardy Strawn, Myron Charles Taylor, Admiral William Sowden Sims, Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
...usually affords it. The New York Telegram, after a survey, reported that there had been 89 shootings in the city within one month. Aroused by this and other testimony, District Attorney Thomas C. T. Grain last week called a meeting of 50 such civic leaders as Owen D. Young, Seward Prosser, Thomas W. Lamont, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Forty gentlemen attended, formed what newsmen likened to an oldtime frontier vigilance committee. A call was issued for complaints from racket victims. These poured in immediately, revealing gang levies on trucking, music, milk, funerals, laundries, freight, cleaning & dyeing...