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...Rockefeller theory of charity was thus explained by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. in Forbes Magazine: "It is sometimes complained that we do not give proper consideration to small . . . applications. . . . Our conception has been that we should devote our funds to relatively few, carefully considered large projects. . . . Take the case of the Rockefeller Institute [for Medical Research] After the idea of it was conceived ... we said to my father, 'Here's a great gamble. You may plant one million or five millions and get no crop in the form of medical discovery. The average man cannot afford...
...have a look, said they. They formed a Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, backed largely by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. To head the inquiry two years ago they chose, an engineer -President Albert Lyon Scott of Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc. (industrial specialists), a Brown graduate (1900), minister's son, onetime Baptist deacon and Bible class teacher. Year ago Engineer Scott went to the Orient with an Appraisal Commission headed by Harvard Professor of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking. The Commission roved about, returned last July. Last week Engineer Scott began making public the report of the inquiry, which will...
...girls leap, slide, fall forward and backward, accompanied only by a cymbal and the swish of their bodies against a slick blue floor; the same girls in an or- giastic interpretation of an oldtime Shaker meeting; a marionet show in which Alfred Emanuel Smith, Herbert Hoover and John Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine," "Satan's Little Lamb." When Ladies Meet (by Rachel Croth- ers; John Golden, producer). Everything Mary Howard (Frieda Inescort) did bore the hallmark...
Chrysler, John Davison Rockefeller...
...York Evening Post: "He has conducted the usual amateur campaign. . . . Stories of his heavy contributions to the Democratic campaign fund grew. . . . Reports increased that his party managers did not expect him to win but were going to 'take care of him if Roosevelt won by giving him Trubee Davison's job [Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics] at Washington. . . . Young men with the political morals of Cornelius V. Whitney should not be welcomed to our public life. On the contrary, they should be firmly told to stay at home...