Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with Charles Hillyer Brand, able jurist, banker, philanthropist and U. S. Representative from Athens, Ga., nor with Charles John Brand, able botanist, economist and marketing expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture...
Died. Melton D. Bryant, 52, philanthropist, brother-in-law of Henry Ford, member of the Michigan State Legislature since 1924; of heart disease; in Traverse City, Mich...
...Samuel Augustine Courtauld, philanthropist, publisher of Odes and Epodes of Horace in translation...
There were two questions. This was the first: Did Sebastian Spering Kresge, multi-millionaire proprietor of 5 & 10 cent stores, famed philanthropist and supporter of the Anti-Saloon League, devout Methodist Episcopalian churchman, commit a breach of conduct with Miss Gladys Ardelle Fish, with whom he arranged a rendezvous at the door of a fashionable Manhattan Church, and with whom detectives later discovered him to be consorting in a nearby apartment? The answer to this question, determined last week by the judicial decision upon Mrs. Kresge's uncontested suit for divorce, was yes. The second question, raised...
Nathan Straus, philanthropist, Zionist, last half of Abraham & Straus (famed Brooklyn department store), became 80 years old, in Mamaroneck, N. Y. He gave another $100,000 for reconstruction work in Palestine (making a total of $1,500,000). His wife lit a candle on a monster birthday cake and kissed him. Letters of congratulation showered upon him from the clergy, from financiers, from almost all State governors, from the Cabinet, from President Coolidge, who remarked how well beloved is Nathan Straus and said: "Such a reward is beyond price." Mr. Straus repeated his motto: "Give while you live...