Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether it wanted it or needed it or not Des Moines last week had Lawsonomy "the base of absolute knowledge." For an unnamed sum the Humanity Benefactor Foundation bought defunct Des Moines University's 14 acres and six buildings (including dormitories for about 390 students), closed since 1929. On hand for the occasion was Lawsonomist No. 1, a 74-year-old ex-ballplayer, ex-aviation operator, crusader for valueless money, named Alfred William Lawson...
Students and Secrets. Lawson is not going around worrying his busy head about students for his Des Moines university. If no others show up, he figures on drawing from the 100,000 officers of the Benefactor Foundation. Foundation board members, incidentally, are secret. Explains Lawson: they often shift. Apparently Lawson does too. His home is nowhere more definite than "near Ann Arbor" or in a Detroit suburb-Ferndale or Royal Oak; his Detroit office staff is expert at evasion...
First Sgt. Morris Isacowitz played the part of benefactor by arranging for the attendance of the entire population of Mather Hall at a Boston Brave-Cincinnati ball game on Thursday. With the grand cooperation of the Buddies' Club in Boston he was able to procure ducats gratis...
...best news in Washington last week had to do with feeding the world. Many a U.S. citizen has feared that his Government would 1) set up the vastest and most hopeless charity scheme in history, 2) earn the usual unhappy reward of the starry-eyed benefactor, 3) make the U.S. people so tired of serving as international milch cow that a new wave of isolationism would sweep the country. Last week brought signs that such fears can be forgotten...
...outlined in the annual council reports, the funds collected from pledges are employed to meet the needs of local and national charities, with the Red Cross a typical benefactor...