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...school personally until 1927, when they turned it over to a board of trustees so that endowments could be solicited. Taft himself soon raised $2,000,000-notably $300,000 from half-brother Charles Phelps Taft and $500,000 from Yale's and Harvard's great benefactor, Edward S. Harkness...
...property, which also contained the meeting house where John Harvard preached, is being completely converted at the expense of the unannounced benefactor...
...flagpole situated in the playground, the following tribute to John Harvard, the College's greatest benefactor is inscribed...
Latest contribution to University coffers for the general support of the College was an unrestricted gift of $25 in cash recently received from a Chinese benefactor, Jan Quen of Jamaica Plain. Last week Quen, a Boston laundryman, walked into the office of Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the Corporation, to make a donation which included six boxes of Chinese ginger wrapped in a laundry bill...
...expected $1,000,000 gate was to go to Promoter Mike Jacobs, in payment of sums owed him by Conn and Louis, another $41,000 to pay Louis' debts to one of his co-managers, John Roxborough. Mike Jacobs looked terrible: he was to be the chief benefactor after Army Emergency Relief. Another: Yankee Stadium, which insisted on 5%, Bataan or no Bataan. But the War Department looked the worst: Secretary Stimson's own staff had cavalierly fumbled the whole affair, had made stupid promises to Louis and Conn. Example: The sportswriters were told that a representative...