Word: garvan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis Patrick Garvan...
Germans, recalling how he took chemical patents from them as Alien Property Custodian during the War, and later exploited them as head of the Chemical Foundation, are not prone to think of Irish-blooded Francis Patrick Garvan, brother-in-law of the late Tycoon Nicholas Frederic Brady, as a particularly apt exponent of the spirit of Fair Play. But affable "Pat" Garvan is a sportsman as well as a patriot. Last week he made two moves toward an end which he thinks important: transfusing the spirit of Fair Play from U. S. sport to U. S. business...
...enormously valuable Americana, one of the world's finest collections of sporting art. It includes Thomas Eakins' famed prizefight picture, Taking the Count; Frederick Remington's picture of an early football game; a pictorial history of baseball since the Civil War; hundreds of prints, statues. Donor Garvan named it the Whitney Collection, in honor of two late famed Yale sportsmen, Harry Payne Whitney and his brother Payne...
When President-elect Abel assumes office at Atlantic City next Christmas holiday, he may have a great announcement to make. Established to his honor at Johns Hopkins is the John Jacob Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold. Francis Patrick Garvan, who four years ago created the fund, so far has given to it $173,750 of the Chemical Foundation's wealth, will during the next year give another $36.250. Then he will stop giving and the Research on the Common Cold will have concluded its five years' schedule of investigation. So far the Research has produced chiefly negations...
...Athlone, one from Wicklow. Co-directors were Miceal Breathnach, a Galway engineer, and Patric Farrell, a young man with social connections in Manhattan, protégeé of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. They had no trouble in finding such powerful patrons as Mayor James John Walker, Financier Francis Patrick Garvan, Lawyers Dudley Field Malone and Frank P. Walsh, Critic Ernest Boyd, Sportsman Aiden Roark (of the British International Polo team), Actor Dudley Digges, the widow of Author Donn Byrne (now Mrs. M. M. Willoughby Craig) and Socialites like Mrs. Walter A. Burke, Mrs. Charles Gary Rumsey. By the time...