Word: davison
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Carnegie Institution. Ranking next to the $550,000,000 which the John Davison Rockefellers have given to social agencies is the $350,000,000 which Andrew Carnegie (1837-1919) gave. The sum constituted nine-tenths of his fortune. To endow the Carnegie Institution of Washington he assigned $10,000,000 in 1902. After a special act of Congress incorporated the Institution in 1904, it received $12,000,000 more from Mr. Carnegie directly and $5,000,000 from Carnegie Corp. of New York, which he established in 1911 to maintain his funds for "aiding technical schools, institutions of higher learning...
...Mathilde McCormick Oser, daughter of Capitalist Harold Fowler McCormick of Chicago, granddaughter of John Davison Rockefeller, wife of Max Oser, onetime Swiss riding master, arrived in the U. S. last week on vacation from her home in Berne, Switzerland. With her were husband, son, daughter. It is her first visit since her widely publicized marriage, at the age of 18, in 1923. The Oser children were to meet Great-Grandfather Rockefeller...
...former years Professor Davison will give each day during the examination period a brief organ recital at Appleton Chapel beginning immediately after the service of daily morning prayers...
...former years, Professor Davison will give each day during the examination period a brief organ recital at Appleton Chapel beginning immediately after the service of daily morning prayers...
...former years, Professor Davison will give each day during the examination period a brief organ recital at Appleton Chapel beginning immediately after the service of daily morning prayers...