Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A super-government of businessmen to rescue Chicago from its mire of municipal debt came a step closer last week with the selection of an advisory commission of 27 bankers, lawyers, merchants to serve as experts in this crisis. The movement toward such an organization of potent citizens has been...
Last week Chicago officials admitted that the city faced bankruptcy, that it had borrowed up to the legal limit on anticipated revenue, that only a Businessman's Commission could prevent financial disaster. Taxes were far behind because of assessments rank with favoritism. Fifty thousand city employes, chiefly firemen and...
The nominees for the Commission, which has yet to be called into official existence by the city government: Alfred S. Austrian Augustus Stephen Peabody Francis X. Busch James D. Cunningham Charles Piez William Ruggles Dawes George McClelland Reynolds George 0. Fairweather John Fitzpatrick Carl Richter Harold Edwin Foreman J ulius...
Last week George Fisher Baker, near-billionaire chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, gave away another million dollars and again marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans...
Large Rockefeller benefactions began in 1901 with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Quickly (1902) followed the General Education Board. In 1909 came the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission to control hookworm in the U. S. In 1913 (the year of the Colorado Fuel strike) the Rockefeller Foundation was formed and the...