Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Jules E. Mastbaum, 54, cinema theatre magnate, philanthropist, art collector; in Philadelphia, in the arms of his mother; of pneumonia and uremia, following operation. He was brother of Mrs. Ellis A. Gimbel and Mrs. Louis Gimbel of Manhattan (Gimbel's Department Store). Rising from messenger boy he acquired a fortune estimated as between 5,000,000 and $20,000,000; purchased by degrees the largest collection of Rodin statues known (245 pieces), of which he secured 98 in one shipment (TIME...
...speechmaking, beginning with a football game on the campus and including the distinguished presence of representatives of the Phelps Stokes Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Missionary Association (all contributors to Fisk's million-dollar endowment), as well as dozens of college presidents and Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, guests of honor. To give substance to the occasion, Lawyer Cravath offered $25,000 if alumni would match him. Promptly they contributed...
Married. Fifi Widener Leidy, 23, daughter of Joseph E. Widener (Philadelphia capitalist-philanthropist-art patron); to one Milton C. Holden, 35; in Philadelphia. Early this year she divorced her first husband, Carter Leidy, with whom she eloped when...
Nathan Straus, 78, merchant-philanthropist: "To rouse Boston Jews into giving towards the $7,500,000 which United Palestine Appeal fund wants to collect before next June, I reminded them last week that 'the Rockefellers, both father and son, are devoting their millions to help the welfare of mankind, while a man like Henry Ford has engaged in a campaign against the Jewish people.' Then I added, 'If he submitted the facts to a committee of ten men of unimpeachable character, ministers and laymen, he would be fully convinced of the justice of my claim...
...Reginald Arthur St. John Leeds, in London. She is granddaughter of Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75), Oswego, N. Y., perfecter of sewing machines, founder of the New Jersey corporation which now internationally controls 80% of the world's output of sewing machines. Sir Mortimer, her uncle, balloonist and philanthropist, became a British subject in 1900, was knighted in 1920, for having donated a War hospital...