Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aisle, second row) was draped in black. The funeral service, conducted by Spnate Chaplain Phillips, was brief, simple (see p. 8).∙ ¶ As custom requires, Vice President Curtis gave a State dinner at the Mayflower Hotel last week for President Hoover. Forty-four other guests attended including Harvey Firestone, Charles Michael Schwab, William Wallace Atterbury, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose (Kansas City cracker widow). Afterward Vice President Curtis entertained them with a newsreel of a Cabinet meeting and of Will Rogers' cinema Lightnin...
...Brothers Kellogg have long disagreed on the immediate use of wealth. Nearly 30 years ago John Harvey invented a precooked breakfast food. The brothers manufactured it together. When its sales earned them big money, Dr. John Harvey insisted on spending the money on sociological activities-child welfare, public health, race improvement. Will Keith insisted on letting the business amass a fortune before giving the money away. His viewpoint was that business should be the benefactor of society. His brother's view was that business should be the servant of society. Their ultimate purpose was the same-giving away their...
Impatient, Dr. John Harvey wanted to supervise his own benevolence. He sold his interest in the food concern to Will Keith for almost a quarter of a million dollars, and almost at once founded the Race Betterment Foundation (1906). A more intimate good deed was his legal adoption of 14 orphans and his complete support of some twoscore more. The profits of his profitable Battle Creek Sanitarium go to such works (TIME...
...John Harvey made himself more famed than his business (the Sanitarium) and his benefactions. Brother Will Keith made his business (Kellogg Co.) more famed than himself. The public knows practically nothing about him. Employes of the Kellogg Company have stern orders against exploiting him. Servants of the Kellogg Inn at Battle Creek, his legal residence, dare not talk. Dr. Carrie S. Staines Kellogg, 63, his second wife, who practices at Battle Creek, minds her own patients, not his business. Nor is there much small talk about him at Pomona, Calif., where he is breeding the largest registered herd of Arabian...
With such deliberate avoidance of publicity he has produced a cascade of philanthropies this year, which probably (it is impossible to calculate) surpasses the volume of Brother John Harvey's. To Michigan State College of Agriculture & Applied Science he gave his experimental farm near Gull Lake, Mich., and his wild life sanctuary at Wintergreen Lake, Mich. He endowed both for 999 years...