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Typographically uninteresting, written in the stiff, undeviating style of all worthy financial announcements, an advertisement, which measured 8½ inches long, three columns wide, made known last week without obvious effort to do so, that John Davison Rockefeller III had made his debut on a directorate. Said the notice, printed in Manhattan dailies: "To serve adequately the banking needs of the Harlem section of New York City, the Dunbar National Bank of New York . . , will open for business September 17, 1928.'' It said the bank was "established particularly to serve the business and personal banking interests of Harlem...
...significant that John Davison Rockefeller Jr. should pick the Dunbar National Bank for his son's first financial activity.* The Paul Laurence Dunbar Apartments, named for the Negro poet (1872-1906), and built by Rockefeller money, will house the bank...
Because no person will agree with another person's view of him, few persons are satisfied with their portraits. John Davison Rockefeller expressed delight at seeing Sargent's portrait of him but Calvin Coolidge, when he had been painted by Philip Lazlo, sent for the artist to come and finish one of his hands. What emotions of embarrassment, scorn, amusement and despair Painter Lazlo must have concealed in the letter which he addressed to the President to inform him that the hand was finished...
Recently the Cité Universitaire received $2,000,000 from John Davison Rockefeller Jr. with which will be built a large central building (TIME...
...site of the old defensive walls of Paris. Senator André d'Honnorat gave it form and became its president. France, Belgium, Great Britain, Canada, the U. S. and other countries built houses there for students. What was needed was a central administration building. Last fortnight, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. contributed $2,000,000 for that purpose. He had looked into University City last summer and Senator d'Honnorat had come to the U. S. last winter to study university methods...