Word: luke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fellowships to be administered by the Trustees of the Peking Union Medical College..." 47,610.94The Harvard War Memorial 189,228.00International Education Board: For construction and endowment of a Southern Astronomical Observatory Station at Bloemfontein. South Africa 180,000.00Law School Endowment 695,000.00Estate of A. F. Luke: One half for the advancement of medical and surgical science 237,081.43G. A. McKinlock and Mrs. McKinlock: Additional payment for the G. A. McKinlock Jr., Dormitory 91,087.92Estate of Norton Perkins: "In Memoriam to my father, the late E. H. Perkins Jr." 50,250.00The Rockefeller Foundation...
Last week Col. Luke Lea, onetime "baby of the U. S. Senate," bought the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal. Abetted by Rogers Caldwell, Nashville capitalist, Col. Lea is looked upon as a special strongman in journalism and politics of the middle south. His papers: Nashville Tennesseean (morning and evening), Memphis Commercial Appeal, Memphis Evening Appeal, Atlanta Constitution* Knoxville Journal. He tried to buy the Kansas City Star, but his $12,000,000 bid was rejected...
Tennessee is pleased with itself over Luke Lea; the things he says in his papers, the politics he professes and practices; his background of notable social tradition; his vitality. He stands six feet four, is inclined to athletics, has lived on earth some 50 years. Tennessee sent him triumphantly to the U. S. Senate some ten years after he was graduated from University of the South in 1899. Col. Luke Lea is a great public personality...
...business, but friendship is also friendship." Mystic and baron clasped hands. And an "obligation is an obligation" to Reuben H. Donnelley, 63, president of Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (Chicago publishers of directories) and vice president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons (Chicago printers).** Last week, sick abed in St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, he told a story all but forgotten...
...Luke, Yale '23: "Take studies too seriously, and do not take football, which is a serious subject, seriously enough...