Word: charitarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a Rockefeller Family Association. It was founded in 1905, when John Davison Rockefeller's name was large in the news as charitarian and anathema* Then 110 less-known Rockefellers gathered at Germantown, N. Y., laid the foundation. Their purposes: "Fellowship . . . acquaintances . . . assisting children of Rockefeller descendants to obtain an education . . . by making them loans of money . . . without interest." Initiation fee was $2, annual dues $2. More recently they have published the R. F. A. News, an eight-page quarterly which runs gossip on Rockefellers; family genealogy and such information as: "This name [Rockefeller] was chosen after...
...Marcus Monroe Brown's Rockefeller in Education & Religion, 1905 (charitarian); Ida Minerva Tarbell's The History of Standard Oil, 1904 (anathema...
...anonymous donor gave $50,000, commissioned a sculptor to erect a statue of Pierre Samuel du Pont, rich charitarian in Wilmington, Del., his home town. When Charitarian du Pont learned of the project, he requested the sculptor to return his photographs, said that he was "unalterably opposed...
Died. Robert Weeks deForest, 83, Manhattan art patron, charitarian, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Welfare Council of New York and the National Housing Association, vice president of the American Red Cross, official in many another philanthropic organization; of heart disease after a long illness; in Manhattan. A Yale graduate, he practiced law in Manhattan, married Emily P. Johnston, daughter of President John Taylor Johnston of Central Railroad of New Jersey, became general counsel, director and vice president of the corporation. With his wife he collected Early American furniture for many a year, presented...
...Banker-Charitarian Case last week was preoccupied by the failure of Bank of United States, one of four components of a proposed billion-dollar bank which he had consented to head (see p. 29). But the Community Chest work throughout the land to which he had given his prestige and advice, was for the most part completed for the year. Thanks to Banker Case, William Cooper (Ivory Soap) Proctor and men like them, 360 community chests were flooding national headquarters with glad reports of some $80,000,000 collected...