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Three years after his son's death from cancer, William Henry Donner, steel man, last week gave $2,000,000 for research in cancer. The gift, administered by a new International Cancer Research Foundation, was one of the largest ever sent to war against a particular division of disease...
...years ago Dr. James Ewing, generalissimo of the world's anti-cancer forces, recommended that six $10,000,000 institutions be erected in different parts of the U. S. to attack cancer on all its fronts. Mr. Donner and his advisers* do not entirely agree. None of his $2,000,000 may be spent for buildings. No one institution is to get more than 35% of the income. Not less than 35% of the income nor more than 50% must be spent outside of the U. S. Mr. Donner hopes ''that this policy . . . will result in more...
William Henry Donner, 68, has most of his business life been a doctor to steel companies. His first important work was as manager & treasurer of National Tin Plate Co. at Anderson, Ind. National Tin Plate became part of American Tin Plate, and American Tin Plate part of U. S. Steel. These progressive fusions provided Steelman Donner considerable wealth...
Another U. S. steel constituent was Union Steel-bought for $25,000,000 from the Mellons, the late Henry Clay Frick and Mr. Donner. Mr. Donner was Union Steel's president. Donora, Pa., which he helped found, is named after him. He also helped found Monessen...
Last January Mr. & Mrs. Donner entertained more than 1,000 relatives and friends when Elizabeth Browning Donner, their elder daughter, was married at Bryn Mawr, Pa., to Elliott Roosevelt, second son of New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Governor Roosevelt's oldest son James is son-in-law of Harvard's famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Williams Gushing. Donner millions might thus have been allocated to investigations in Dr. Cushing's neurosurgical field. Or they might have been marshaled against infantile paralysis, from which Governor Roosevelt has suffered. But a strong Donner trait is immediacy...