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...with a veritable board of education, two inches wide), or the teachers who taught him tactile reading and writing in line letters and New York point. Without letting the world know, he has been for many years the chief advisor for the Nebraska School for the Blind, its chief benefactor. He has helped me, the chief executive, with counsel. He has visited the school often. And he has provided funds in many, many ways. While school is in session every month there comes a check for our children from which 25? is provided weekly for those without means, with...
...Would the President call it tax evasion or tax avoidance or unethical for such a person who wants to give his whole income to charity if the benefactor in question writes to all the companies from which he receives salary or dividends and tells them to make out the checks directly to the charities...
...nations, including Japan, Italy and Germany. Ever since Mr. Kellogg's successor Henry Lewis Stimson made his abortive attempt to invoke the Pact against Japan in 1931, Mr. Kellogg's monument has seemed increasingly hollow. Last week, not as a Government official but as a trustee and benefactor of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., 80-year-old Frank Kellogg created one niche at least where his Pact can survive...
...Philadelphia last week the Northern Baptist Convention wound up its annual gathering (TIME, May 31) after paying its respects to its late benefactor, John D. Rockefeller (see p. 65), and declaring itself in favor of Government-fixed minimum wages, Government-limited incomes. Elsewhere African Methodists (Albany, N. Y.), United Lutherans (Manhattan), United Presbyterians (Chicago), Catho lic Daughters of America (Elmira, N. Y.), Knights of Columbus (Geneva, N. Y.), members of a Movement for World Christianity (Rochester, N. Y.), a Fellowship of Southern Churchmen (Nashville, Tenn.) deliberated, prayed, resolved. Most news worthy conventions of the week...
Then Edward, his friend and original benefactor, came to the Throne. Promptly swank Mayfair's slick-papered smartchart bi-weekly Leisure bought and ran in serial installments excerpts from his forthcoming biography, "The New King . . . Exclusive . . . Intimate Life Study ... by Hector Bolitho." The series ran for four months. Last week just about the biggest biographic surprise Mayfair has had came when a few people bought what they casually supposed was only the binding up in book form of the Leisure sketches, a friendly series of bi-weekly pieces about Edward VIII seemingly penned in deepest, sincerest admiration...