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Josiah Willard Hayden's agreeable job is that of giving away $50,000,000. Josiah Hayden is head of the Charles Hayden Foundation, one of the richest in the U. S. It was founded by his bachelor brother, Wall Street Financier Charles Hayden, who, when he died two years ago, left his fortune to "rear a nobler race of men" (TIME...
Many a U. S. citizen speculated how his vast bequest might be spent. Charles Hayden stipulated that it be used to promote the "wellbeing, uplifting and development of boys and young men." To Josiah Hayden (whose own needs were well cared for by a $2,000,000 trust fund from his brother), $50,000,000 meant a chance to wave a golden wand, play fairy godfather...
...Schroeder had tested Mrs. Hayden's brother-in-law, George Mohr, and knew that he had Type IV blood. George Mohr was waiting in the reception room. "Bring in the donor," called Dr. Schroeder to a nurse. The nurse phoned a hospital employe, who ran to the reception room. There, nervously pacing the floor, was Arthur Fuller, Type II, waiting to give a transfusion to his mother. "Come along," said the employe...
...trotted down the hall into the operating room. On a table lay a woman, swathed in white sheets, who Arthur Fuller assumed was his mother. Dr. Schroeder assumed that Arthur Fuller was the Type IV donor he wanted. He pumped Arthur Fuller's Type II blood into Mrs. Hayden's Type IV veins. In a few hours she was dead...
...Hayden's husband, Fred, brought suit against Dr. Schroeder, demanded damages of $10,000. Last week a Chicago jury decided that whatever negligence there had been was not Dr. Schroeder's, and Widower Hayden lost his case...