Word: charitarians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bush (née Spore) was born near Bay City, Mich. She is a sister of the late U.S. Navy Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam. In her time she has practiced dentistry, and as a lavish Manhattan charitarian she became known as "The Angel of the Bowery...
...Director Dunnington's opinion was important. Reluctantly, he felt that the chairman's tongue-wagging had made him unfit for so responsible a job. Solidly behind him were the company's other Manhattan directors, particularly Banker William Steele Gray Jr., Broker Henry Upham Harris, Charitarian Barklie Henry...
...millionaire, charitarian Louis Blaustein, death came in 1937, few months after he had filed one of the most potent lawsuits ever brought in New York County's Supreme Court. Main defendants: Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); great Standard Oil Co. (N. J.); its operating subsidiary, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Last week stocky, easygoing Son Jacob was head of the Blaustein family and administrator of its Baltimore charities when Justice Samuel Irving Rosenman (onetime Governor's Counsel to F. D. R.) handed down a decision in the case...
Chase Osborn is a metallographer, zoologist, ornithologist, theologian, explorer, publisher, charitarian, author, Elk, Odd Fellow, honorary Boy Scout and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan. He is also a geographer. Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave...
Died. Edward Stephen Harkness, 66. famed but retiring charitarian, who spent his life giving away the fortunes he inherited from his father (Standard Oil), his mother, a brother; of intestinal influenza and complications; in Manhattan. Edward Harkness' secret was the total of his gifts; the known sum exceeded $100,000,000. His beneficiaries included Yale (his alma mater) and Harvard, where his millions provided U. S. versions of the Oxford college system; Columbia (a library, medical funds); Phillips Exeter Academy and other preparatory schools; the Commonwealth Fund (upwards of $50,000,000 for rural hospitals, medical research, education...