Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who have accused Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr. of inconsiderateness, selfishness, because the loud though melodious tones of the carillon which he donated to the Park Avenue Baptist Church disturbed their holiday slumbers (TIME, Dec. 7) do not number among them August Heckscher, philanthropist. Moved to characteristic benignancy by Mr. Rockefeller's carillon, Mr. Heckscher made a proposal to the Mayor of New York. He would like to give a carillon to the city. Indeed, if the city would build a tower for the purpose in Central Park, he would order the bells forthwith. He said: "The flexibility...
August Heckscher, famed Manhattan philanthropist, felt it incumbent upon him to write a letter to the New York Times explaining why in the recent mayoralty election he contributed to the campaign funds of both parties. He said...
...Congressman, lost his life, a hero, in the Titanic disaster. Nathan is now 77 and Oscar Solomon is 75, and for more than a generation their portraits have appeared in the public prints of the U. S. as frequently as that of Santa Claus. Nathan is the passionate philanthropist. No sooner does he make a nickel (Abraham & Straus, R. H. Macy, emporia) than he gives away six cents. (Since 1915 his donations have exceeded his income.) Oscar Solomon is the zestful statesman (Rooseveltian Moose, Taft Ambassador to Turkey...
Divorced. Rose Pastor Stokes, onetime cigarmaker, settlement worker, Communist agitator, and "Russian-Jewish Poetess" by millionaire, onetime-Socialist, philanthropist, James Graham Phelps Stokes...
Among the surviving nine who will return to Cambridge tomorrow are Edward C. Johnson, merchant and philanthropist, until recently the head of C. F. Hovey & Co.; and Selwyn A. Bowman, former member of Congress and still an active practitioner of law in Boston. The others are Professor James A. Towle of Bryn Mawr: Frederick W. Bradlee: Edward Carter: D. T. S. Leland, Dr. Samuer G. Webber; John T. Morse, the class secretary: and Charles A. Nelson...