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John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (Brown '97) has distributed his offspring among U. S. colleges with the same conscientious impartiality that has characterized his largess. John Davison Rockefeller III was Princeton '29; Nelson Aldrich, Dartmouth '30; Laurance Spelman, Princeton '32; Winthrop Aldrich, Yale '35 (but no graduate); David, Harvard '36. Last week Princeton, which is currently seeking $6,500,000, elected serious young John D. Ill a life member of its Board of Trustees. Mr. Rockefeller; 31, is already a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, the General Education Board, the American Museum of Natural History...
...fathered the Gore-McLemore resolution to keep U. S. citizens off belligerent ships, voted against war and, in consequence, failed of reelection in 1920. Returning to the Senate in 1931, this onetime Populist turned hard-headed conservative proceeded to oppose such New Deal innovations as NRA, such New Deal largess as AAA and the $4,800,000,000 Relief bill of 1935. To his constituents' demand that he vote for the Relief bill, he replied: "Much as I value votes, I am not in the market. I cannot consent to buy votes with the people's money...
...Jersey. For the first time in 50 years the State faced a deficit, $13,000,000. Persistently loud has been the demand for additional taxes for Relief (TIME, May 4). Equally loud has been the Legislature's reluctance to legislate a tax bill. That the Dorrance largess, one-fourth of which was interest on the original amount due, was a beautifully-timed blessing seemed apparent to everyone but State Senator Charles E. Loizeaux. Snapped he: "This is just staving off the evil day. . . . Next year there won't be any Dorrance money...
...Gulf Stream in a rowboat to determine the exact date of spring. He has taught Ubangi women to play tiddlywinks on their platter lips. He owns an adjective factory in New Britain, Conn., whence he sallies forth each year, like a vernal Santa Claus, to scatter his sesquipedalian largess to thirstily gaping yokels. These and hundreds of such amiable Munchausenisms have been printed in the U. S. Press about Dexter William Fellows...
...consulting Congress, now declared it was up to Congress to finish them. But the President had already tossed $5,500,000 over the Maine dam, sunk $5,400,000 in the Florida ditch, and well he knew that Republican campaigners would not let U. S. voters forget his headlong largess...