Word: charitarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Month of October is also the month of Hospital drives, Community Chest drives. For the U. S.'s No. 1 charitarian rich man, John D. Rockefeller Jr., it was a busy week, with not only charity but a ceremony attendant on the presentation by the French Government of the Diplome de Grand Prix to Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes. Meanwhile, at one of his father's endowments, the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins announced that Chicago, would gladly take over Oxford's Rhodes scholars during...
...congregation of Priests of the Mission was founded by St. Vincent de Paul, great & good charitarian, at the Priory of St. Lazare in Paris...
...fuddy-duddy. Howard Hunter spent 18 months with the A. E. F. as an officer in Tulane University's medical unit, was a Boy Scout executive, for ten years a professional fundraiser for Community Chests-picked by Harry Hopkins, who was once an expert in private charitarian money-gathering...
Gabrilowitsch himself she depicts as good-natured and talkative, a shrewd but generous man, a violent stickler over restaurant bills but an open-handed charitarian. When the U. S. entered the World War, he promptly arranged to give half his income to the Red Cross. Yet he was so enraged at being overcharged ten cents in a railroad diner that he spent days brooding and writing letters of protest to the company...
Last summer this old fortress of personal good works turned with the times as its directors chose to succeed Founder Addams as head-resident an efficient, practised public charitarian. She was Charlotte Carr, executive director of New York City's Emergency Relief Bureau. A tall, hefty, genial spinster who studied at Vassar before the War, Miss Carr left her job as employment manager of Knox Hat Co. in 1923 and soon became acting director of the New York Labor Department's Division of Women in Industry under Frances Perkins. After that she served as director of Pennsylvania...