Word: humanitarian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Oswald Garrison Villard of Manhattan, editor of The Nation, was bequeathed the residuary estate (more than $100,000) of Mrs. Harriet C. Flagg of Brookline, Mass., when she died a few years ago. He maintained that the bequest was a trust, to be contributed by him to humanitarian causes advocated both by himself and Mrs. Flagg (famine relief, laborers' welfare, Negro social advancement, free speech, printing and assemblage). Flagg relatives contested that the "trust" was too indefinite, that they were entitled to the property. Last week the Massachusetts Supreme Court held that the bequest had been made outright...
...There are an increasing number of individuals who have sufficient resources to enable them to minister in the most substantial way to the humanitarian and artistic side of life. . . . So many of our people have large amounts of property that it is taken on the aspect of being common.* It is doubtful if there ever was a time when great wealth gave its possessors so little power as at present...
Last fortnight, Son Littauer made the crowning gift of a long series of philanthropies. He gave $1,000,000, promised more, to a foundation bearing his name, in "the cause of better understanding among all mankind," and for "altruistic activities of every nature, charitable, humanitarian, educational, religious and communal...
...following is the list of speakers and their topics: "The European Economic Situation," Dr. A. W. Gilbert, State Commissioner of Agriculture; "Public International Unions," Dr. J. F. Siy Ph.D. '26 Lecturer on Government, Harvard University; "Social and Humanitarian Work of the League of Nations," Dr. R. C. Dexter, American Unitarian Association; "The World Court," Dr. W. Y. Elliott, Professor of Government, Harvard University; "The National Minority Problem in Europe," Dr. M. W. Royse, Instructor in Government, Harvard University; "Economic Conferences," R. W. Boyden, formerly official delegate of the United States to the Reparations. Commission; "Foreign Service of the United States...
Died. Col. Newbold Morris, 60, able Manhattan lawyer, humanitarian, churchman, clubman; of heart disease; in Manhattan...