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...from his seaside estate one morning last week for a constitutional along Ciudad Trujillo's palm-lined George Washington Avenue. Pedestrians were herded aside, but cars rolled by unmolested just a few yards away. Only a handful of aides guarded Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, 65, Benefactor of the Fatherland, Genius of Peace, etc., etc., etc., as he strolled confidently along. In the dictator's island fief, poincianas were blooming, sugar cane was growing, business was booming...
After some negotiation with the U.S. Trust Company of New York, representing the benefactor, the donor agreed to extend the grant so that Heimler's major expenses will also be covered during his three years at the University. The gift was donated "on the condition that the Hungarian be chosen by a Kirkland House committee and reside in Kirkland House," Taylor said...
...homespun clothes and refused to find him a seat. Last week Boston felt differently about the Green Mountain boy": the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, named in his honor and originally endowed from his estate, put on a high-toned medical symposium to mark the 150th anniversary of its benefactor's birth. The facts that Brigham once peddled oysters from a wheelbarrow and was arrested for selling liquor illegally were little noted. He was praised for having made a fortune in the restaurant business and in real estate, but most of all for having specified...
Edward Harkness was responsible for the Union's demise as an under-graduate building was no longer needed. In 1930, after a brief debate over the relative merits of Memorial Hall and the Union building, The University looked carefully into Major Higginson's will, discovered that the benefactor had made allowances for failure of his institution as a club, and promptly named its new freshman dining hall the Harvard Freshman Union. No one was terribly sorry about this development--except one or two recent alumni who grumbled something about their $50 Life Memberships appearing valid only for the life...
Some people interested in the matter, therefore, feel that the University may choose to honor a benefactor who would pay for the House, or a considerable portion...