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Died. John Davison Rockefeller, 97; of sclerotic myocarditis (hardening of the heart muscles); at "The Casements," at Ormond Beach...
...July 8, John Davison Rockefeller would have been 98. The late Marcus Alonzo Hanna, who knew him well and served him faithfully, once said of Mr. Rockefeller: "Sane in every respect save one-he is money mad." In the past few years, however, Mr. Rockefeller's dominant ambition was to live to be 100. With the same serene confidence in his destiny that once made him master of the nation's oil industry and the world's first billionaire, he believed he would achieve his goal. But last week, as it must to all men, Death came...
From stations high & low last week eulogies poured forth for the little old man who made more money than any man has ever made in a lifetime. Yet 30 years ago in the days of Roosevelt I, John Davison Rockefeller was frequently and publicly proclaimed as the "mosthated man" in the U. S. The $29,000,000 fine imposed on Standard Oil in 1907 by Kenesaw Mountain Landis was merely a reflection of the public's temper. Mr. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust were not viewed with the cynical distrust which Big Business enjoys in the days...
...short speech over the radio, Archibald T. Davison, professor of Choral Music and conductor of the Glee Club, emeritus, who gave an organ recital in Memorial Church at eight o'clock, praised the organization and its continued success under Woodworth...
...organ recital, Professor Davison, assisted by Evangeline Merritt, soprano, will present "Prelude," Vlerne; "Air," Bandel; "Air do Lia," Debussy; "Pastorale," Franck; "Ich wandte mich," and "Wenn ich mit Menschen and mit ngelszungen redete," Brahms; "Patron das macht der Wind," Rach; "Sur un theme Breton," Rpoparts; and "Austrian Hymn," Paine. This will be the last public organ recital of the current academic year...