Word: guggenheim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white president (often they have asked for a black), Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath* and his fellow trustees arranged the four days of ceremony and speechmaking, beginning with a football game on the campus and including the distinguished presence of representatives of the Phelps Stokes Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Missionary Association (all contributors to Fisk's million-dollar endowment), as well as dozens of college presidents and Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, guests of honor. To give substance to the occasion, Lawyer Cravath offered $25,000 if alumni would match him. Promptly they contributed...
Engineers. The aeronautics section of the Society of Automotive Engineers went into session. One speaker was Professor Alexander Klemin, onetime aeronautics editor of TIME, lately head of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at New York University. He spoke of the "foolproof" plane that must some day be developed to make flying as general as automobiling; promised that the international competition, made "interesting" by $150,000 to $200,000, which the Guggenheim Foundation is to conduct over the next three years, would turn designer's minds from the speed craze* to safety. The principal factors to be developed: slower...
...type of impetus to civilian aviation came forth last week when the War Department sanctioned a Government aviation unit to be established at New York University in conjunction with the Guggenheim School of Aviation, inaugurated there four years ago and expanded last year by $500,000 from Daniel Guggenheim for an aviation building unique* among U. S. universities. The U. S. unit at the school will consist of a regular flying officer detailed, with special equipment, to assist Professor Alexander Klemin, the head of the school, and train the graduates to eligibility for commissions in the Flying Corps...
...late Luther Burbank, from Charles Dana Gibson and Chauncey Depew, from John Drew and J. Ramsay Mcdonald, from William Randolph Hearst and John Grier Hibben, from Colonels George Harvey and Edward M. House, from Sir Lionel Phillips and Masuki Otagawa (Japanese mine owner), from George Gordon Battle and Daniel Guggenheim, from Robert Herrick and Sol B. Joel, from Charles Beecher Warren and John J. McCarty. The list has almost no end, composed as it is of men in all walks of life?ambassadors, financiers, politicians, scientists, admirals, artists. And the names of most of these men are not merely lent...
...Guggenheim Foundation, established a year ago with a fund of $3,000,000 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim as a memorial to their son, offers to young productive scholars and artists of the country opportunities to carry on research and creative work chiefly abroad. Applicants are required to present definite projects for research in a given field or knowledge, or for creative work in some one of the fine arts...