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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John D. Rockefeller began to heap up his philanthropies right after his friend and doctor, the late H. L. Biggar, had warned him to cease active business or die quickly. That was 30 years ago, about the time when Andrew Carnegie became aggressive with donations (TIME, June 10). The Carnegie donations became $350,000,000, nine-tenths of the Carnegie fortune. The Rockefeller donations are already $550,000,000, probably not one-half of the Rockefeller fortune. Carnegie philanthropies deal chiefly with education and science, Rockefeller philanthropies chiefly with medicine and education...
...Italian Laborer Antonio Comincio died in New York City. During 42 years in the U. S. he had saved up $900 but had not become a U. S. citizen. He left no heirs, no will. Under U. S. law, e tates of all persons dying under such conditions become the property of the State in which they die...
Last week, Italy's Fascist Government, through counsel for Magno Santovincenzo, Acting Italian Consul in New York City, entered a claim in surrogate's court for the Comincio savings. Their reason: under Italian law. all estates of Italian citizens who die intestate without heirs, no matter where they had lived, revert to Italy's King upon their death...
...chief disciple. So black did life seem to "Johnists" Skripnik and Serednitzky and their followers last week that it wa's decided to send a messenger to heaven. Looking about him, Ivan Skripnik chose young Gregory Romashevsky to act as this messenger. Romashevsky blanched but accepted, prepared to die. He lay down on the table in the mean wooden house that serves the Johnists for a church. By his head was laid an old butcher knife, carefully sharpened...
...France 40,000 people die each year from cancer, he learned.* Almost half of them kill themselves to end their pain. Should not the state "through pity put an end to the sufferings of those incurables who ask it of us?" he asked himself. Of course, human life is inviolable. Yet the state executes criminals. And of course religion forbids good-intentioned murder as well as offensive murder and suicide. But religion is a personal matter. Step by step he puzzled out the logic of his ethical problem: "Has the state, for reasons which are at bottom religious, the right...