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Carnegie Institution. Ranking next to the $550,000,000 which the John Davison Rockefellers have given to social agencies is the $350,000,000 which Andrew Carnegie (1837-1919) gave. The sum constituted nine-tenths of his fortune. To endow the Carnegie Institution of Washington he assigned $10,000,000 in 1902. After a special act of Congress incorporated the Institution in 1904, it received $12,000,000 more from Mr. Carnegie directly and $5,000,000 from Carnegie Corp. of New York, which he established in 1911 to maintain his funds for "aiding technical schools, institutions of higher learning...
Richard Corbett assumed the responsibility. He gave his suffering mother a narcotic. Then he shot her through the head. Next he shot himself, but lived. Last week he was in the hospital at Hyeres, reluctantly alive and detachedly wondering what state and social judgment would be on his matricide. He wrote a long letter to Le Matin, outstanding Paris daily, explaining his deed, admitting his "guilt," urging that, come what might to him, the law be changed. "I regret nothing," he said...
While merger meetings were being held throughout the land, representatives of six churches (Baptist, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, South, Society of Friends, Lutheran. Presbyterian) convened at Washington to discuss the report on Christian unity prepared in 1927 by the International Conference on Faith & Order at Lausanne, Switzerland. Next week, 100 nationally prominent laymen and clergy will meet at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., to discuss: "Next steps toward a united church." Last week's meetings...
Newspapers throughout the state had carried the news that Scarlet Sister Mary was too scarlet for Gaffney. Now they carried the story that the Cherokee Times had a scarlet serial. And next-great "scoop" for the Cherokee Times!-they carried news that Scarlet Sister Mary had won the Pulitzer Prize for 1928 as best U. S. novel of the year (TIME...
...must to most magazines carrying little advertising, Death will come next month to the resolutely literary Dial. Reasons for the demise were not forthcoming last week from the Dial's "adviser," Scofield Thayer, or from Editress Marianne Moore, or from President James T. Watson Jr. They simply announced that publication would cease after the July issue...