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...members of the faculty, five of whom are on leave of absence for the duration of the national emergency, are among the 96 scholars and artists who have been awarded $230,000 in fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation...
These hard words were written, in a recent American Mercury article, by Zora Neale Hurston, B.A., Litt. D., Rosenwald and Guggenheim fellow, about some of the U.S. schools fostered by her own Negro race. The better U.S Negro colleges, long aware of the unsavory reputation of such institutions, combined their fund-raising efforts two years ago under the sponsorship of John D. Rockefeller Jr.* This week the United Negro College Fund, headed by Sperry Corp.'s President Thomas A. Morgan, opened its second annual drive, for $1,550,000. The Fund may not include every good Negro college...
Bigwigs of these corporations live in the far corners of the earth, well beyond the Biddle reach. So he had to content himself with individual charges against seven officials or stockholders near at hand in Manhattan, including Solomon R. Guggenheim, aged (84) copper magnate and art collector, and Clendenin J. Ryan, lieutenant commander in the Navy and grandson of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan...
...Guggenheim Latin American Fellowships are granted annually to assist and encourage research and creative work in all fields of art and scholarship. The stipend is usually $2,000, plus travelling expenses. In addition to the Fellowships for work at Harvard, two-were granted this year to artists, three to philosophers, two to biologists, and one each to an historian, a chemist, an economist, and a lawyer...
...Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships are available to scholars in the United States and Canada as well as Latin American and are awarded to persons who, by work accomplished, have already proved themselves of the highest ability. The Foundation was set up in 1925 by the late United States Senator Simon Guggenheim and Mrs. Guggenheim in memory...