Word: benefactor
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DIED. BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD, 71, banker-benefactor; of emphysema; in Geneva. The scion of the banking dynasty oversaw operations in Paris and Geneva and gave away much of what he made, most often to Israel...
Ironically, the Black Hills Institute may yet get its bones back. Larson's organization has kept its hand in the game by contributing material to the auction catalog and advising Sotheby's on how to care for the fossils. Thanks to a wealthy benefactor named Stanford Adelstein, the institute will make a serious bid on Sue this week. And it's no secret how South Dakotans feel about the prospect of bringing their T. rex home. Said Governor William Janklow in a statement released by the institute: "She belongs in South Dakota. She lived and died here, and we want...
Noting Chasteney's role as a benefactor of the library at the University of Arizona at Tucson (UA), Baumgardner said "his interest in books goes with his lifetime career in the Time organization...
...painting of Major Higginson, the original benefactor of the building, still adorns a nearby wall...
...cast of 46 political donors and suitors. As the subpoena was faxed around Washington last week, it set off a minor panic among lobbyists and fund raisers worried about who might be called to testify. But their fretting was misplaced: the name of the G.O.P.'s most generous foreign benefactor wasn't even on the list...