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...what an extent the present world owes its color and character to Thomas Alva Edison, the press of the world will bear witness today. He will be praised as a benefactor of all mankind, as one of the greatest of all Americans...
...direction of what little of fine music there is in the United States must remain cloistered in the precincts of the moneyed few. Where well-performed music is within reach of the financially less fortunate the executants are usually paid from private funds. Where there is no individual benefactor willing to make the requisite personal sacrifice the attending public must pay admission prices that are prohibitive to the comfortable as well as to the poorer classes...
...most adroit politicians of the shirt-sleeved South, Governor Sterling has worked long and hard to reach his present eminence. In his home city of Houston he made a reputation as a port developer, a Y. M. C. A. benefactor and the able publisher of the Post-Dispatch. In 1927 Governor Dan Moody named him chairman of the State Highway Commission. He did a good job reorganizing this politically mired department. He built new highways and spread his name & fame up and down every mile of them. It was on the strength of this road work that he was nominated...
Sugar for Diabetics. U. S. chemistry's greatest individual benefactor, Francis Patrick Garvan, has a progressively severe case of diabetes. Insulin is maintaining him in fragile health. Last week from Buffalo he received news which may help him and other diabetics. Dr. Israel Mordecai Rabinowitch of the Montreal General Hospital has traced the damages of diabetes to an enzyme in the blood. An enzyme is a digester. Dr. Rabinowitch's enzyme apparently destroys the insulin which the patient's pancreas manufactures itself or which the patient takes as medicine. Infections, like colds, stimulate the increase of this insulin-destroying enzyme...
...wished to join with Catholic friends in conducting a school in Manhattan, but anti-Catholic feeling was strong there. Her clerical advisers suggested that she go to Baltimore, and there in 1808 she opened her school. She prayed that she might open a free institution, soon found a benefactor, one Samuel Cooper. Hers was the first free parochial school...