Word: charitarians
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August Heckscher, rich real estate operator and charitarian,was made chairman of Rainbow Luminous Products, Inc., firm closely identified with Runaway Charles Victor Bob (TIME, Oct. 27). Among new Rainbow directors chosen last week were Gustave Maurice Heckscher, the chairman's son; Thomas F. Cole, sometimes associated with Promoter Bob in deals, once a mineral expert with U. S. Steel; Augustus Peabody Loring Jr., Boston banker. The company announced that Mr. Bob is no longer a stockholder or director in Rainbow...
...improve the physical, mental and moral conditions of humanity and generally to advance charitable and benevolent objects," by Mrs. Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, in memory of her parents, Jeremiah and Elizabeth Lake Milbank. Mrs. Anderson's cousin, Albert Goodsell Milbank, Manhattan lawyer, is Fund president. Another cousin and charitarian is Jeremiah Milbank, Manhattan banker...
...educator, Mr. Carnegie applied his celebrated industrial maxim: "Find an efficient man and enable him to do the work." For years President Pritchett was not only Andrew Carnegie's next door neighbor in Manhattan, but his chief philanthropic adviser and severest critic. To President Pritchett once remarked Charitarian Carnegie: "You really don't realize how valuable you are to me. You are one of the few people who tell me when I am wrong...
...great city's poor came to her in 1883 when she watched an auctioneer in London's East Side selling a consignment of badly spoiled meat. She and her longtime friend, Julia C. Lathrop, went back to Chicago a few years later and started their charitarian operations in the home of one Charles J. Hull, at Halsted near Polk Street. It was a lively neighborhood. On one side stood a mortuary, on the other a saloon. Hull-House grew, expanded building by building until now it occupies the entire block, is one of the biggest...
...some with amusement, some with complete apathy, almost every Princetonian has regarded it as weak. This judgment was echoed last week by the society itself. President Charles Stevens announced that next year it will lead only a nominal life, while a federation of studentry and faculty carries on its charitarian and other endeavors. Many Princetonians discerned behind this movement the energetic figure of Rev. Robert Russell Wicks, Dean of the University Chapel, who arrived at Princeton two years ago from the Second Church (Congregationalist) of Holyoke, Mass., determined that Princeton's religious life should be enlightened, vital...