Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret was the total of his gifts; the known sum exceeded $100,000,000. His beneficiaries included Yale (his alma mater) and Harvard, where his millions provided U. S. versions of the Oxford college system; Columbia (a library, medical funds); Phillips Exeter Academy and other preparatory schools; the Commonwealth Fund (upwards of $50,000,000 for rural hospitals, medical research, education, etc.); Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum; the Pilgrim Fund (to serve "the most vital needs" of Great Britain...
...Richmond's conservative Commonwealth Club 200 Virginians and their guests last week gathered to dine on terrapin stew, beaten biscuits, Smithfield ham and orange ice, toast Argentina and the U. S. in brimming glasses of champagne. Cause of these happy doings: a preview that night at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts of the largest show of Argentine art ever put on outside South America. Said Argentine Ambassador Felipe A. Espil: "A country's artistic creations are the best exponents of its psychology and temperament." Eighty-year-old Counselor Robert Walton Moore of the U. S. Department...
...Varsity and Freshman polo teams both won their games Saturday night at the Commonwealth Armory, the Varsity trouncing the Ramblers, 12 to 7, while the Yardlings defeated Edgewood, 5 to 1. Gay Dillingham, Crimson captain, was the individual high scorer with seven goals...
...Stephen Vanderburg Harkness of Manhattan set aside $10,000,000 "to do something for the welfare of mankind." This money was used to launch the Commonwealth Fund. By 1926, when she died, she had left $38,000,000 to the Fund. It is managed by Mrs. Harkness' serious-minded son Edward, who is one of the few men in this world who lie awake nights worrying about how to spend their money. The original endowment has now grown to almost $50,000,000. In 1939, according to Mr. Harkness' latest report, published last week, the Fund spent almost...
...Varsity and Freshman polo teams both won their games at the Commonwealth Armory Saturday night over the Freebooters and the Artillery clubs by 7 to 5 and 8 to 6 scores...