Word: donor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins also announced a notable gift last week. With an anonymous donor promising $275,000 for "research in American institutions" if someone would match it two for one, President Hutchins finally found a man willing to give him $550,000. He was Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who two years ago was so shocked by his niece Lucille Norton's breakfast-table talk about communism that he not only withdrew her from the University but provoked a sensational legislative investigation (TIME, April 22, 1935). Of the resulting Charles R. Walgreen Foundation...
...third item is a group of important drawings acquired at the sale of the Oppenheimer Collection in London through the gift of an anonymous donor. Of these six are Italian, while the others include a medieval monastic drawing, an early North Italian, two distinguished figure studies in silver point by Perugino and Raphael; and heads by Luini and Liberale da Verona. In addition there is a drawing of the Holy Family by Correggio and two Flemish drawings, one by Van Dyck, the other by Rubens...
...donor, one of the most successful managers who ever worked for the old Monthly, wishes to remain anonymous. He hopes that the unique competition which he has made possible will bring a large number of recruits to 1416 Massachusetts Avenue at 5 o'clock tomorrow...
...founding of New York University. In 1927 Connoisseur Albert Eugene Gallatin announced that he was presenting to his great-grandfather's college a collection to be known as the Museum of Living Art. Few museums are more autocratically administered. All the pictures are chosen and paid for by Donor Gallatin. They are hung in the main study halls of N. Y. U.'s Washington Square branch, because of his belief that pictures should be lived with, not visited on pilgrimage...
Last Sunday Professor Merriman was surprised to receive two white rabbits as a parting gift from an unknown donor. Although faint from confinement in their package, the bunnies revived quickly under the stimulus of milk and carrots, and started to tussle with Professor Merriman's two dogs...