Word: donor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such cases is that the donor's intentions, s expressed in the original agreement, is binding. The conflict here revolved mainly around the relation that the Arnold trustees intended between Harvard and the Arboretum. The gift might be considered an outright grant to the University with strings, attached, like a gift to Harvard for scholarship funds. This was, to oversimplify, a major line taken by Ropes-Gray. In such a case, the University is free to use the funds for whatever purpose it feels will further its purpose. The report added, however, that use of the Arboretum must also...
Died. Yukio Ozaki, 95, donor of Washington's famed cherry trees; of an intestinal ailment; near Yokohama. A longtime (1890-1953) member of the Japanese Diet (which called him the "father of Parliaments") and mayor (1903-12) of Tokyo, Internationalist Ozaki sent a thank-you gift of 2,000 trees in 1909 in gratitude for U.S. mediation efforts in the Russo-Japanese War. When an insect-conscious U.S. Agriculture Department burned them, he patiently sent another 3,000 bug-free trees, which still bloom yearly in the capital. A fragile man with a sensitive face, Ozaki was popular enough...
...bequest was received from the estate of John Farwell Moors, who died in 1953 at the age of 93. Moors is Radcliffe's largest single donor. His previous gifts include $700,707 towards Moors Hall, $5,000 towards Holmes Hall, and $5,000 for unrestricted endowment. A typographical error in yesterday's paper stated that Moors had given five million dollars for unrestricted endowment...
Chato's scheme, according to one donor: "He calls you on the telephone, bubbling over with enthusiasm about a new Ceézanne or Modigliani he has just bought. Right away you know you're involved in this purchase somehow. Before the conversation is finished you find you've just donated the painting. I've always thought of Chato as a kind of Brazilian Robin Hood. He robs the rich and gives it to the people...
...count on civic pride alone. Both the newly rich, empire-building Paulistas and the established granfinos (high society) have a finely developed sense of rivalry. When one contributor donates a painting, Chato scurries around to the others to help them make sure they are not being outdone. He places donors' names conspicuously beneath the paintings, and ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain. Coffee King Geremia Lunardelli is the donor of a Goya, a Manet, two Renoirs, a Rodin bronze, two Toulouse-Lautrecs, a Degas and a Ceézanne; the Jafet family (iron) has come through with...