Word: keiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will Keith Kellogg, 70, head of the vast breakfast food concern at Battle Creek, Mich., last week again belied the general impression that he is a dour moneymaker. He created the W. K. Kellogg Child Welfare Foundation, gave it $1,000,000 for immediate use, provided for a total of $50,000,000 if & when needed...
...Foundation is Lewis J. Brown, president of Mr. Kellogg's Kellogg Co. and a leader of the American Management Association. Foundation medical superintendent is Dr. James Stuart Pritchard, 48, Canadian-born lung specialist, long in charge of the chest department of the Battle Creek Sanitarium which Businessman Will Keith Kellogg's famed brother Dr. John Harvey Kellogg operates...
...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 fortunes...
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...
Plays that are built for actors are only as pleasant as the actors themselves. At Keith's this week "Sin Takes A Holiday" with Constance Bennett is very pleasant indeed. The story isn't much and the supporting cast has little to do, but Miss Bennett is enough for one movie...