Word: biggar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John D. Rockefeller began to heap up his philanthropies right after his friend and doctor, the late H. L. Biggar, had warned him to cease active business or die quickly. That was 30 years ago, about the time when Andrew Carnegie became aggressive with donations (TIME, June 10). The Carnegie donations became $350,000,000, nine-tenths of the Carnegie fortune. The Rockefeller donations are already $550,000,000, probably not one-half of the Rockefeller fortune. Carnegie philanthropies deal chiefly with education and science, Rockefeller philanthropies chiefly with medicine and education...
...prize money for Clarence. Clarence was satisfied and wanted to go home to State Centre. But W. L. Blizzard of Stillwater, Okla., who awarded one of the prizes, told Clarence to enter Dick for the grand champion prize. Clarence consented, but would not lead Dick before Walter Biggar, who traveled from Dalbeattie, Scotland, to do the judging. Emma Goecke, 17, his big sister, took Dick to judgment. Clarence was sick to his stomach. If Dick won the grand champion steer prize, that would be Dick's end. He would be sold at auction (as is the live stock show...
...bringing Otto with him, together with several members of Otto's family. Mr. Collier has been drawing Otto for the last eight years, and has been so successful that he has added considerably to the family, of which the most prominent members are May, his wife; Mrs. Lotts Biggar, his mother-in-law; Dewey and Wanna, the twins, and Lotta, Kenny, and Willie, the other children. Mr. Collier freely makes additions to the family whenever he finds it to be to his advantage. In satirizing prominent people or current events he puts a squashed hat on his subject and gives...