Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...democracy. "Our authority . . . must not be so severe that children learn to dislike all authority. . . . Our children must be allowed and encouraged to help make decisions that affect the whole family. Vacation plans, the division of household tasks, even decisions as to the way the family should spend its money are ways to develop democracy in the home...
...room office in Boston, installed on his desk a carved black bull a foot high (he says it symbolizes his bullishness on U. S. youth) and began to distribute his brother's largesse. To his office, whose doors are always open, came many thousands of requests for money, some crackpot, some worthy...
...wanted most. When the director said he wanted a gasoline water pump, Mr. Hayden promptly made his wish come true by fishing out $75 in cash. Recently, he walked into the lavatory of the Burroughs Newsboy Home in Boston, emerged to announce that he would give the institution money for shower baths and new toilets...
Working by instinct rather than the ponderous methods of other foundations, Mr. Hayden by last week had given money to 130 institutions, hundreds of scholarships in various schools and colleges, had spent $2,500,000 and enjoyed every dollar of it. Among recipients of Hayden money were: Boston University, Boys' Club of New York, Catholic Youth Organization, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, M. I. T. (Charles Hayden's alma mater), Columbia, Stevens Institute, Fordham, New York University. No favorer of races or creeds, Mr. Hayden gave $25 to the Harlem Eye and Ear Hospital...
Biggest gift was $586,000 to Boston University to help build a new business-school building. Last week Josiah Hayden repaired to B. U., sat himself in a chair, beamed as he heard money make silky talk. Up to speak at founders' day exercises rose B. U.'s President Daniel L. Marsh. Mr. Marsh delivered a 40-minute effusion on "one of the most successful, dynamic and achieving lives that America has yet produced-the life of Charles Hayden...