Word: charitarians
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...believes he has played to more people than anyone else in the world. Backed at first by a number of rich New Yorkers, the Goldman concerts later became the private benefaction of the Guggenheim family (copper), are now called the Daniel Guggenheim Memorial Concerts for the charitarian who died five years ago (TIME, Oct. 6, 1930). At last week's celebration Mayor LaGuardia presented his city's Certificate of Honor for Distinguished Service to modest, greying Widow Florence Guggenheim. Turning from her toward the audience and the band, the Mayor said: "Tonight you have heard and enjoyed, with...
City fathers, bankers, businessmen, churchmen and miscellaneous bigwigs of Houston, Tex., gathered in Scottish Rite Cathedral for a solemn celebration of Jesse Holman Jones Day. In the audience, the big, genial chairman of Reconstruction Finance Corp. bowed his head, heard seven speakers eulogize him as a publicist, charitarian, politician, financier, "the most dominant and dynamic individual factor in the upbuilding and progress of our great city." Then a bronze bust was unveiled. Said Houstonman Jones: "I almost feel as if I have been listening to a funeral oration...
...weeks ago when her horse fell on her during a hunt; in Washington. An intensely energetic organizer, she was a founder of such diverse bodies as the Junior League (with Anna Eleanor Roosevelt). Manhattan's swank Colony Club, the Community Councils for National Defense (later to become the charitarian Community Councils), the Eastern Livestock Co-operative Marketing Association. In 1910 she married polo-playing Sculptor Charles Carey Rumsey, who was killed twelve years later in an automobile accident. An early & generous supporter of Roosevelt, she became, with her good friend Frances Perkins, one of the important women...
Died. James Ross Mellon, 88, retired Pittsburgh financier and charitarian, elder brother of Andrew William Mellon, father of Board Chairman William Larimer Mellon of Gulf Oil Corp.; of old age; in Pittsburgh...
...guarded her virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established at last as private secretary to a rich lady of charitarian views, Mary (now Marilyn) met the man of her dreams, who turned out to be an inventor of genius, a gentleman born, and a landed proprietor. All the signs were right; Mary let culture go, fell into his arms, spoke naturally for the first time in her life: "I am glad that...