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...Paris last week, grateful Frenchmen drafted a petition that Human Benefactor Briez be admitted to the Legion of Honor...
...appropriated $20,000 to found in Harvard University a Professorship of Greek Language and Literature; and that the desire of the donor was not to be known or named as its founder Votes of thanks for this, the largest sum that had been bestowed upon the College by a benefactor during his lifetime, were immediately passed by the Corporation, together with an expression of "regret at not being allowed to know or publish the name of the donor," and a prayer "to Him with Whom is the issue of all human counsels and efforts, to bless this design to impart...
...obtained, for Abby, a suspended sentence when she had been nabbed for the second time by an irreverent traffic patrolman. The city room of the American buzzed at the prospect of an old-fashioned beat: 'Daughter of Oil King's Son to Wed Humble Speed Case Benefactor...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Thomas Adams, 80, benefactor of tens of millions of gumchewers, at his Fifth Avenue home, Manhattan...
...University of Texas is at present enjoying, from one impersonal benefactor alone, an income of about a million and a half dollars a year. It is not a case of some preposterously wealthy and generous retired capitalist. It is not revenue from an enormous endowment fund. The income is the university's one-eighth royalty on the output of the Group 1 Oil Company, organized three years ago to drill on land that the university chanced to own. Last week the company's directors declared three monthly dividends of $250 a share on the 2,048 shares outstanding...