Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what a splendid fellow he was too, in addition to being such a benefactor to mankind (unless you want to hold all the Yankees who have moved to the South against him). A perfectly Horatio Alger kind of guy was Willis Carrier, struggling against odds, persisting, overcoming. Slapped down by the Great Depression, he fought back again to build an enormous concern that to this good day is the world's leading maker of air conditioning, heating and ventilation systems...
...active duty as Dean of Students comes the end of an era in the history of the College. Twentynine years after the young then-assistant dean was carried out of University Hall during the student takeover of 1969, Epps has left a mark on this campus as mediator, spiritual benefactor and consummate protector of Harvard tradition...
...told colleagues that should Gingrich run for President in 2000, he wanted to take over. Four years earlier, Gingrich had handpicked Livingston--at the time the fifth-ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee--to become the panel's chairman. Livingston ultimately used this perch of patronage to knife his benefactor: wielding his clout as Congress's most powerful chairman--the guy who doles out the money--Livingston last week assiduously tapped a base of supporters to push Gingrich...
Harvard renamed the Widener Library Reading Room for benefactor Katherine B. Loker in a Friday afternoon ceremony celebrating her generous contribution last April to the library's renovation...
...wonder. No President has mentioned the American People as incessantly as President Clinton. (We talk about him an awful lot too.) He presents himself by turns as the American People's benefactor, slave and towel-snapping locker-room pal. In his rhetoric the American People, for their part, serve alternately as a goad, an inspiration, a shaming device and, of course, an excuse. "I need to go back to work for the American People," he notoriously said on Jan. 26, and then refused to discuss the Lewinsky scandal for almost seven months. Too busy. The American People's work really...