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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...
...college man, chubby, jovial, Yankee Josiah Hayden had sold spring water in Lexington, Mass., been a Y. M. C. A. leader in France during the War and has occupied himself with "private charity work" ever since. Last year Mr. Hayden opened a two-room office in Boston, installed on his desk a carved black bull a foot high (he says it symbolizes his bullishness on U. S. youth) and began to distribute his brother's largesse. To his office, whose doors are always open, came many thousands of requests for money, some crackpot, some worthy...
Biggest gift was $586,000 to Boston University to help build a new business-school building. Last week Josiah Hayden repaired to B. U., sat himself in a chair, beamed as he heard money make silky talk. Up to speak at founders' day exercises rose B. U.'s President Daniel L. Marsh. Mr. Marsh delivered a 40-minute effusion on "one of the most successful, dynamic and achieving lives that America has yet produced-the life of Charles Hayden...
Married. Her Serene Highness, Princess Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya (née Audrey Emery), 35, daughter of Cincinnati's multimillionaire Leather Tycoon John Josiah Emery, divorced wife of Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia (co-assassin of Rasputin); and Prince Dimitri ("Mito") Djordjadze, Georgian prince and racing motorist; in Maidstone, England...