Word: philanthropist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Andrews Clark, 57, philanthropist, founder (1919) of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, son of Montana's late copper-mining Senator Clark; of heart disease; in Salmon Lake, Mont...
Birthdays. Adolph Lewisohn, philanthropist, 85; Queen Mary of England, 67; Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, 50; James Joseph ("Gene'') Tunney, 36. Died. Henry T. Koenig, 42, radium authority, developer of a reduction system which greatly cut radium costs; of cancer of the hip; in Denver. He was the last to die (from radioactivity) of 21 onetime assistants to Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie...
Awarded. Notre Dame University's Laetare Medal, outstanding U. S. award to live, lay Catholics: to Mrs. Nicholas Frederic (Genevieve Garvan) Brady, philanthropist, vice chairman of the National Women's Committee on Welfare and Relief Mobilization. Last year's award: To Tenor John McCormack...
David Harum (Fox) offers admirers of Will Rogers an opportunity to watch him whittling a fence-post, driving a sulky, singing ta-rah-rah-rah-boom-de-aye and swindling a clergyman. David Harum is a New England horse-trader and village banker. Part rascal, part philanthropist, he makes it his business to further a romance between his shy clerk (Kent Taylor) and his pretty protege (Evelyn Venable). He accomplishes his purpose by trading to her a horse named Cupid, suitable for sentimental buggy rides because he balks...
Sued for Divorce. Henry Lee Higginson, Massachusetts blueblood, grandson and namesake of the late music-minded philanthropist, great-grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and of the founder of long potent Lee, Higginson & Co. (bankers); by Betty Bird Higginson, onetime opera-singer; in Cambridge. Charge: cruel and abusive treatment...