Word: littauer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retired from Congres but turned up frequently in Washington as a lobbyist for the glove industry. Especially in 1922, when he got the duty on cotton gloves upped 15%, Mr. Littauer deemed his tariff lobbying a public service on behalf of his neighbors and business associates...
...ventures as the TVA, such regulatory bodies as the SEC (TIME, Feb. 4). The government department and Law School devised special programs. What was needed, however, was a separate graduate school. Last week Harvard got one. The public-spirited donor, found after 30 years of search, was Lucius Nathan Littauer...
...Littauer is the biggest name in the U. S. glove industry. Lucius Littauer's father Nathan started in business peddling gloves from house to house in upstate New York, ended by founding Littauer Brothers. Son Lucius went to Harvard where he made close friends with Theodore Roosevelt, played football, rowed on the crew, began his philanthropies by helping classmates through college. Graduating in 1878, he presently took over and built up his father's business. Gloveman Littauer's own career as a public servant began in 1897 when his glovemaking neighbors sent him to Congress...
Grateful Gloversville honored its stout, bald, walrus-mustached benefactor with a life-size statue of which Mr. Littauer, as a believer in useful monuments, disapproves on principle. Six years ago he established the Littauer Foundation which supports research into pneumonia, cancer, heart disease...
Struck dumb with Harvard's good fortune in being the beneficiary of Mr. Littauer's munificence, we can say only that the purpose for which the gift is intended is worthy of it, and that Harvard is deserving of every congratulation. Our only doubt is in the existence of any assurance that the men trained in this school will find recognition and the opportunity to make use of their talents in a still political civil service. Our government must live up to our universities. --Yale News