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Nineteen years ago young Charles Garland, who had just inherited a fortune from his Boston millionaire father, decided to give away a million dollars...
Somewhere in his education (at St. Paul's School and Harvard) young Garland had also acquired more ideas than he knew what to do with. But people were not so interested in them. One of Garland's ideas was that people ought to live together in simple peasant communes, sharing love and money. To carry out that idea he organized two April Farms, first in Massachusetts, then in Pennsylvania. In both there were girls in gay embroidered dress, young intellectuals in sturdy work clothes, living as free spirits, the most exotic peasantry that ever came...
...give away the million, Garland set up the American Fund for Public Service, with a capital of approximately $900,000, voluntarily removed himself from all control of it. His idea was that the money should be spent as quickly as possible, consistent with wise giving to progressive causes that other agencies wouldn't touch. In those days, when the Bolsheviks were just getting established, money from Russia came as a bare trickle to U.S. radicals. The Daily Worker then got only $35,000 a year from the Communist International; the Garland Fund gave it some $50,000 more between...
Among the Fund's directors were William Z. Foster (then secretly a Communist), Benjamin Gitlow (then a Communist tycoon ), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (I.W.W.), the Reverend Harry Ward (Union Theological Seminary), Robert Morss Lovett (now Government secretary of the Virgin Islands). Though the Garland Fund threw money right & left (mostly left), instead of being depleted, it grew. (It held First National Bank of the City of New York stock during the '20s.) Sixteen years after Charles Garland decided to give away his million, the Fund was close to $2,500,000. Some of this paper profit was wiped...
Child Star Judy Garland (now 19) became engaged to Band Leader Dave Rose, 30, just divorced by satchel-mouthed Martha Raye....Oldtime chalk-faced Comedian Harry Langdon's ex-wife asked a California court to O.K. a $60,584 judgement for unpaid support, previously granted in New York....Dorothy Lamour left for Hawaii on the same boat with friend Gregson Bautzer; both denied they'd marry in Hawaii....Torch Singer Lillian Roth's husband drew six months in jail for blacking her eye; she said he had also broken her jaw while courting her....Peggy Shannon...