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Last week George Fisher Baker, near-billionaire chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, gave away another million dollars and again marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans), Augustus Juilliard (commission merchant, music), Julius Rosenwald (mailorder, Jews, Negroes), James B. Duke (tobacco, waterpower, his university, preachers), Mrs. Russell Sage (railroads, surveys) have given their scores of millions. All these have given largely and chiefly to found institutions and movements they have initiated...
...brother Simon Guggenheim, Republican Senator from Colorado (1907-13), is also a great giver-$3,500,000 for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (for his dead son) for scholarships for advanced study abroad, without regard to sex, race, creed or color...
...giver of all good and perfect gifts . . . has protected our country as a whole against pestilence and disaster, and has directed us in the way of national prosperity. . . . Our fields have been abundantly productive, our commerce has increased, wages have been lucrative. . . . So have we also grown and expanded for the benefit of the world . . ."-from President Coolidge's proclamation of November 29, 1928 as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer. ¶President Coolidge received the trustees of Lions International convening and sight-seeing in Washington. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, who were in town trying...
Sebastian Spering Kresge (5 & 10 cent stores), giver of gold to the Anti-Saloon League, testified in his counter divorce suit against Mrs. Kresge that she offered to bear him a child if he would pay her $10,000,000. "At that time [April, 1925]," complained Mr. Kresge, "she took a Bible* in her hand, shook it in my face and said: 'I swear to God if you don't do what I want there will be the biggest exposé-the biggest scandal you ever heard of.' " Mr. Kresge did not give...
...Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver of the poinsettia to botany) put him in the Army Topographical Corps. He explored in the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, returned to Washington, D. C., with a reputation, was also pointed out as "the handsomest young man who ever walked the streets." He wooed and quickly won Jessie, 16-year...