Word: guggenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bluffed his way through the eyesight test but was found out. He tried advertising and was good at it, like Author Sherwood Anderson, but resigned to write. In 1926 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, went to France and wrote John Brown's Body. Some months ago he followed the well-worn path to Hollywood to write the dialog for Abraham Lincoln (TIME, Sept. 8). Other books: Five Men and Pompey, The Beginning of Wisdom, Spanish Bayonet...
Contributors of $10,000: John North Willys, Harry Frank Guggenheim, Jeremiah Milbank, Mantis James Van Sweringen, Orris Paxton Van Sweringen, John Davison Rockefeller Sr., John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Howard M. Hanna, Cyrus Stephen Eaton, Henry H. Timken, William Robert Timken, Harrison Williams, Herbert Nathan Straus, William Nelson Cromwell, George A. Martin, Joseph Randolph Nutt...
Democratic critics professed to see a connection between the contributions of Mr. Willys and Mr. Guggenheim and their appointments as Ambassadors to Poland and Cuba, respectively. It remained for Texas Representative John Nance Garner, Democratic leader of the House to declare: "I attach considerable significance to the fact that each of the individuals contributing $10,000 to the Republican campaign fund has been a beneficiary of the extremely liberal policy of the U. S. Treasury with respect to tax refunds, credits and abatements...
Died. Daniel Guggenheim, 74, famed copperman and philanthropist, father of U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, brother of Simon Guggenheim, onetime Senator from Colorado and three other potent financiers (Murry, Solomon R. and William); after a short illness, of heart failure, at his home in Port Washington, L. I. He was second of the seven sons of the late Meyer Guggenheim who emigrated from Switzerland as a boy, made lace in Philadelphia, later built up one of the greatest metal trusts in the world (American Smelting & Refining Co.). Constant aide in his father's metal projects was Daniel...
...philanthropies was aviation. He gave: $2,500,000 for the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for Aeronautics, $500.000 for Airship Institute at Akron, the same for a department of aeronautics at New York University, $908,000 to other universities for aviation. Chief other philanthropy (with his brother Murry): the free concerts of Edwin Franko Goldman's band at the Mall in Central Park, Manhattan, and their radio broadcast costs...