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Born. To Mr. & Mrs. James Stillman Rockefeller, of Greenwich, Conn., whose great-granduncle is John Davison Rockefeller; a son. Name: Andrew Carnegie Rockefeller, after Mrs. Rockefeller's great-granduncle...
...also marks the founding of the League of Red Cross Societies by the late great Henry Pomeroy Davison. Red Cross work is the outgrowth of Florence Nightingale's nursing British soldiers during England's Crimean War against Russia and of the Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant's description of suffering in the battle of Solferino (1859). Formal organization of war nursing began at Geneva in 1864. During the World War, such nursing was well organized. Perhaps most efficient was the American Red Cross which Davison headed. In May, 1919, he persuaded England, France, Italy and Japan to join...
...John Davison Rockefeller Jr. drove to his Manhattan home last week, his car nearly bumped an inebriate couple emerging from a speakeasy close by the Rockefeller residence. To avoid undesirable neighbors, Mr. Rockefeller long ago bought most of the block. Rockefeller lawyers were reported planning action to dry up the Rockefeller neighborhood, including the section bounded by Fifth and Sixth avenues and 48th and 51st streets, honeycombed with speakeasies, which Mr. Rockefeller lately bought as site for the Metropolitan Opera and a smart shopping centre...
...John Davison Rockefeller...
...second spring concert of the Harvard Glee Club under the direction of Dr. A.T. Davison '06, will be held on the steps of Widener Library at 7 o'clock this evening. Three folk songs provide the feature of the entertainment which will be followed by community singing of college songs...