Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless many famed yachtsmen failed to find time to examine the Sava- rona. Many of the greatest owners are yachtsmen only in spare moments. Arthur Curtiss James, philanthropist, proprietor of the tall black Aloha, longest of sailing yachts, is the largest owner of railroad shares in U. S. He has to work. John Pierpont Morgan, who commands the enormous black steamer Corsair, also works. But last week William Vincent Astor was not working. He was in Germany investigating his newest boat, biggest oil burning yacht in the world, building in Germany. This yacht, probably to be called the Nourmahal, after...
...horror of an endless gloom. Then the wise fingers of Anne Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon her hand, brought Helen Keller along a lane to light. Years later she could read and write. Years later still, when she was an author, lecturer, philanthropist, Mark Twain could say that the two most interesting characters of the 19th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller...
Engaged. William Rosenwald, 24; son of Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co., multi-millionaire philanthropist, of Chicago; to Miss Renee Scharf, of Vienna...
...training in acting that will be beneficial to them if they enter stage work later but the poise and elocution that is taught to them is something that is often lacking in actors that have gone on the stage without any training of this sort," explained E. F. Albee, philanthropist and head of the Keith-Albee chain of vaudeville theatres, in an interview yesterday to the CRIMSON "My advice to students is to stick to their studies more, but not to let the play side of their college life be entirely neglected...
Died. George Mason LaMonte, 64, Chairman of Board of Prudential Insurance Co., paper manufacturer, famed philanthropist, Democratic candidate (1918) for U. S. Senate from New Jersey; of heart disease, in Manhattan...