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Birthday. Benjamin Altheimer, charitarian, German-born originator of Flag Day (June 14); at Manhattan. Age: 80. Date: March 6. Of a St. Louis Christian preacher who was annoyed that a foreign-born Jew had first thought of so honoring the U. S. flag, he said: "I told that preacher that it wasn't the first time a Jew had given a Christian an idea or something to think about...
Although he is not so lavish a charitarian as was Brother-in-Law Bok, he is interested in the Y.M C A. During the War he served as a "Y" secretary in France. He owes allegiance to no church or college...
August Heckscher, Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, planned to make St. Augustine (oldest U. S. city) and St. Johns County, Fla., one place "in which there would be no poverty, no preventable suffering, no unattended medical cases and no avoidable diseases." As a starter, he gave the Florida Normal & Industrial Institute (coeducational Negro school) a gymnasium, a cinder track, a swimming pool...
Married. Julius Rosenwald, 67, Chicago merchant (Sears, Roebuck & Co.) and charitarian; and Mrs. Adelaide Rau Goodkind, 60, of St. Paul, his eldest son's mother-in-law; at his son's home, in Abington Township, Pa. His first wife died last May; Mrs. Rosenwald's first husband died eleven years ago. Rich in her own right, Mrs. Rosenwald received $1,000,000 dowry from her new husband...
Edward Stephen Harkness, Yaleman (1897), charitarian, whose mother gave Yale its famed Memorial Quadrangle, donated a fund, reputedly more than $12,000,000, to Yale for the development of a ''house plan." Last year he gave Harvard $13,000,000 for a similar purpose (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). Total Harkness benefactions to date: about...