Word: donors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift, a $250,000 clinic, given to Hadassah, international women's Zionist organization, is destined to serve all creeds and colors. Jerusalem's swart Arab Mayor Nashashibi spoke a few words in troubled English, thanked Donor Straus "for often having given to all people in Palestine help and comfort . . . thus creating friendship among Jerusalem's citizens." Great Britain's High Commissioner to Palestine, Sir John Robert Chancellor, spoke too, praised the Zionist movement which is in high favor in Great Britain...
...Ewing Mears, surgeon and writer, left the bequest to Harvard with several stipulations, which the University declined to meet. The donor stated in his will; "It is my wish that the subject be taught in all its branches, notably that branch relating to the treatment of defective and criminal classes by surgical procedures, as I have advocated in my writings on the subject...
...apply it in accordance with the desires of the testator," other institutions interested in eugenics and relatives of Dr. Mears sought to be awarded the money. The award to Jefferson was made because the court held it was qualified in every way to carry out the directions of the donor as expressed in his will...
...Donor Came to America...
Such commercial traffic has dangers. It cannot be closely supervised. Many a blood seller is diseased, many a one sells too often. It takes four to five weeks for such to replace their lost blood properly to provide for another transfusion. A doctor sometimes needs a donor in a hurry and has no time to make thorough blood tests and counts. He must rely on a seller's word, and many a man who will sell blood for a living will tell lies...