Speech #860014695

Up to 1929 the Polish National Alliance (headquarters now in Chicago) had given to Alliance College alone the considerable sum of $1.595.190.58. Annual gifts thereafter have amounted to: 1930 ----------------------$119.985.78 1931 -----------------------124.496.28 1932 -----------------------124. 377.04 1933 -----------------------116. 149.70 1934 -----------------------116.995.60 1935 -----------------------110.946.34 1936 --------------------------133.449.21 1937 -----------------------126.229.58 1938 -----------------------129.032.77 1939 ----------------------- 122.814.03 1940 ------------------------82.240.37 1941 ------------------------76.497.72 1942 ------------------------ 76. 143.68 1943 ------------------------ 80.511.33 1944 ---------- ----- 81.486.93 1945 ------------------------ 83.894.03 1946 --------------- 85.588. 14 1947------------------------ 83.816.48 1948 -----------------------135.208.75 1949 ------------------------78.650.07 1950 ------------------------80.515.73 1951 ------------------------92.249.08 1952 -----------------------123.079.46 1953 -----------------------119.069.70 1954 ----------------------- 119.161.12 1955 -----------------------115.732.92 1956 ----------------------- 164.026.69 1957 -----------------------113.713.40 1958 -----------------------108.363.24 Total from 1912 through June 30. 1958. $4.719.615.75. This makes a grand total of nearly $5 million already given to American higher education by this one American corporation. composed largely of the sons and daughters of immigrants from Poland. a land now suffering under a Communist dictatorship. Alliance College. beneficiary of this generosity. is naturally grateful. but I submit that the general American community should be proud of the pioneer efforts on behalf of American education by this single corporation owned by some 340.000 AmerA1158 cans of Polish or Slavic extraction. With the Polish National Alliance. corporate aid to education is not something new. rather it has been practiced for many years.