Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...higher learning, libraries, scientific research, hero funds, useful publications, and by such other agencies and means as shall from time to time be found appropriate therefor." A notable addition to the Carnegie Institution's basic $27,000,000 endowment was the half-million which Mrs. Edward Henry Harriman, sole heir and active manager of the late great railroad organizer's $100,000,000 estate, gave in 1918. She was and is interested in problems of human heredity...
...University of Chicago in 1904. He had the idea of a station for experimental evolution, and to him was given the direction of the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor at its creation a quarter-century ago. Its first work was on plants and animals. Mrs. Harriman a few years later established a eugenics record office adjoining his station. The two were later combined under him, and his supervision extended over research on all forms of life. He is still director and was, as such, host of last week's genetics display at Cold Spring Harbor...
...speechmaker was Edward Henry Harriman Simmons, who has been President of .the New York Stock Exchange since 1924-longest term in history...
...other Harvard men who took part in the research were Professor N. W. Borden, Professor M. P. McNair '16, and J. W. Harriman, all of the Graduate School of Business Administration...
With a flair for mixing her guests and thus striking new sparks, Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman has made her Sunday evening parties celebrated. When conversation lags, she turns to Senator Thomas J. Walsh and says: "Now, Senator, tell us about the oil scandals." The senator usually obliges, grimly and at length...