Donat, Alexander

The author gratefully acknowledges the computer donation of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. 

Donat-Peter HAder Department of Biology, Plant Ecophysiolojjy, Friedrieh-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany... 

Financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency is gratefully acknowledged (Pl-0201 and Pl-0189). MB-R would like to express her gratitude to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany for the donation of the small x-ray scattering system. This work was partially supported by COST Action 1)43. 

The authors are grateful to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for the support of the equipment for the production of the MFC (DFG FR 675/21-3). Further thanks are expressed to the German Ministry for Education and Research, which supported the German-Bulgarian cooperation on LCP/amorphous polymer blends (BMBF-WTZ Bulgaria). Thanks are also due to Mr. 0. Evstatiev for his active participation in the performance of experiments. The SEM observations were made on the instrument donated by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to the Faculty of Chemistry at Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Bond drew the plight of the Wilson family to the attention of Will Alexander, head of the Farm Security Administration. Doctor Will was the leading figure in the interracial movement of the interwar era director of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, trustee of the Rosenwald Fund, and the first president of Dillard University. But all Alexander offered was a modest donation, in the name of the CIC, toward the NAACP s defense of Luther Wilson. Should Wilson s lawyers choose to forgo his fee, Alexander noted, the money saved could be used in helping Mr. [John] Wilson to get started elsewhere. ... 

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