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Every so often Steel Tycoon Charles M. Schwab, late, great, bankrupt (TIME, May 26), used to promise a $2,000,000 endowment to his alma mater, St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa. Last week the college revealed that Schwab had left it holding not an endowment but the bag, to the tune of $25,000 he borrowed in 1932 and never repaid...
...Merchant Marine on the seas. After the war he went back to making and spending millions: he hobnobbed with Sir Basil Zaharoff, Lord Rothermere and the King of Sweden at Monte Carlo, built an $8,000,000 chateau on Riverside Drive, bought a 1,000-acre estate at Loretto, Pa., his birthplace. In the depth of Depression he never lost his faith in big business. Said he: "I am an optimist by nature. Something is bound to happen." But for the first World War's great profiteer and patriot, World War II came 18 days too late...
...workers staged a brief sit-down at Hershey, Pa.; sundry strikes, mostly sit-downs, had 4,500 workers idle in Rhode Island, 4,000 in St. Louis. As the Sit-Down fever flashed like heat lightning over the land, ten farmhands on Charles M. Schwab's estate at Loretto. Pa. supplied themselves with a radio and gas burner, began a sit-down for more pay in the potato cellar...
Died. Pauline Faraburgh Schwab, 93, mother of Bethlehem Steelmaster Charles Michael Schwab; in Loretto...
...summary: HARVARD 1936 QUINCY Radall, Tighe, g. g., Bonam Stent, r.f.b. l.f.b., Shearer, Galberg Skinner, l.f.g. r.f.b., 191 Loretto Johnson, r.h.b. l.h.b., Andersom, Morrison Carley, Roosevelt, c.h.b. c.h.b., Quinn Kellog, Carley, Jeffreys, l.h.b. r.h.b., Littlewood L. Perry Dawson, r.e. l.e., Downton Dorman r.l. l.l.,J. MacGuire, Garacille Manhetmer, c.f. c.f., A. MacGuire Willetts, l.l. r.l., Robertson, King Vincent, l.e. r.o., MacGibbon...