Word: charitarians
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...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...
...money will be handled by the Services, not by the Salvation Army. And Army still insists that the game does not mean a resumption of athletic relations with the Navy, is merely a charitarian gesture. But soldiers and sailors alike hoped that the historic match (since 1890) will be permanently resumed...
Married. Frances Louise Heckscher. granddaughter of Charitarian August Heckscher, and Socialite Philip Hofer of Cincinnati; in Manhattan...