Word: museum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make them less available. No such considerations, however, would arise in connection with Thomas E. Wilson, packing house (Wilson & Co.) president, or Thomas E. Donnelley, "biggest" printer. Ideal from the standpoint of public spirit would be Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears Roebuck, famed philanthropist (Chicago Industrial Museum, Jewish colonization in Russia, Negro schools and Negro Y. M. C. A.), mentioned as possible Hoover Secretary of Commerce...
President Henry Fairfield Osborn of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History* wrote out a curtain raiser for his trustees. It was his 1929 budget, prepared for their annual meeting last week...
...budget stated that the American Museum's endowment was some $13,000.000. But because the dollar's present purchasing value is little more than half its pre-War value (when most of the endowments were set up), the Museum lacked enough money to pay for its multifold activities. This year's deficit is $106.,00. To make it up President Osborn asked the trustees to contribute their own cash, as they had done for previous deficiencies...
...going to stop it. He needed $8,000,000 more endowment. If he did not get it, forthwith he would dismiss 35 employes, suspend others, set a stationary wage scale, cut off trustee support of field expeditions, reduce the number of publications, and close down many other museum activities. Such cessations would strangle educational and scientific work of one of the world's best natural history museums. It was a lugubrious threat. But the trustees admonished President Osborn to make himself content for a further while. They would get him the $8,000,000 endowment. Until then they would...
Field expeditions organized or sponsored by the American Museum last year were to many a site, for many a purpose. The most important...