Word: littauers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lucius Nathan Littauer was born in Stump City, in upstate New York, in 1859. Twenty-six years later Stump City was named Gloversville, because of the gloves that the Littauers, father and son, made there. Now Son Littauer, resembling "Old Paul'' von Hindenburg in a quiet way, is retired and lives in Manhattan or at Premium Point, New Rochelle, N. Y. He often goes back to Gloversville, where everybody knows him and likes to say hello...
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...
...names most missed in the Harvard lineup when the matmen encounter the M. I. T. grapplers in the first meet on January 5, will be that of J. F. Solano '30, last year's undefeated New England champion. Solano is now at the University of Paris on the Littauer Scholarship. C. C. Corson '28, New England champion for two years, and T. D. Howe '28 are others whose services will be missed...
Joseph Francis Solano '30, of Somerville, has just been chosen as the first recipient of a scholarship for foreign study offered by L. N. Littauer '78, through the Institute of International Education of New York...
...Popular Citizens" William Ackerman (Meridian, Miss.), Ralph Jonas (Brooklyn, N. Y.), Lucius N. Littauer (Gloversville, N. Y.) ; Public Officials Esther Andrews (Brookline, Mass.), William Freidman (Dade City, Fla.), Leon Schwartz (Mobile, Ala.), Alvin A. Wolff (St. Louis); Scientists A. A. Michelson, Leon S. Moissieff, Paul Radin; Theater Men Gustav Blum, Jed Harris, George S. Kaufman, Al Lewis, Samson Raphaelson, Muni Wisenfrend; Women Welfare Workers Mrs. Sidney C. Borg (New York), Amelia Greenwald (Meridian, Miss.), Mrs. Joseph Leblang (New York), Sophie Irene Loeb (New York), Mrs. Leopold Plaut (New York), Mrs. William D Sporborg (Port Chester, N. Y.), Lillian D. Wald...