Word: charitarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Julius Rosenwald, 67, Chicago merchant (Sears, Roebuck & Co.) and charitarian; and Mrs. Adelaide Rau Goodkind, 60, of St. Paul, his eldest son's mother-in-law; at his son's home, in Abington Township, Pa. His first wife died last May; Mrs. Rosenwald's first husband died eleven years ago. Rich in her own right, Mrs. Rosenwald received $1,000,000 dowry from her new husband...
Edward Stephen Harkness, Yaleman (1897), charitarian, whose mother gave Yale its famed Memorial Quadrangle, donated a fund, reputedly more than $12,000,000, to Yale for the development of a ''house plan." Last year he gave Harvard $13,000,000 for a similar purpose (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). Total Harkness benefactions to date: about...
...mouths of pedagogs but from Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant (Wm. Filene's Sons Co.), charitarian, peace promoter, came a solution of pedagogical salary woes. Businessman Filene, whose who in Who's Who describes him as agitating to "increase wages and profits and raise the general standards of living," suggested a mild form of intellectual boycott. Said he, in a letter to the Association: "My hope is that our teachers will prove to be sufficiently selfish. Then it will be up to the colleges to find a way to keep them from accepting offers which they...