Word: philanthropist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Esso Education Foundation, set up last year, follows a new business trend of giving aid to schools. But some foundations have such narrow purposes that the trustees have trouble spending the money. A Boston hospital was given a fund to provide wooden legs for Civil War veterans; another philanthropist left $2,000,000 to care for the daughters of men killed while working on the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Died. William H. Danforth, 85, founder (1893) and board chairman of Ralston Purina Co., philanthropist ($100,000 in 1954 to further the spiritual growth of Vassar students), author (Dare You); of a heart attack as he awaited the arrival of carol singers from the National Christmas Carols Association, which he founded in 1911; in St. Louis...
...misunderstanding between the president of Yale and multi-millionaire philanthropist Edward S. Harkness, was one of the main reasons Harkness contributed over $11,000,000 toward the construction of the Harvard House system, a book published yesterday by a Yale historian reveals...
Died. George A. Ball, 92, financier, philanthropist, last of five brothers, who built one of the great U.S. fortunes on the Mason jar and the purchase in 1935 of controlling stock in the Van Sweringen railroad empire (23,000 miles, including the Chesapeake & Ohio and Missouri Pacific) for "about the price of two first-class locomotives," which he sold for $6,375,000 in 1937 to a group headed by the New York Central's Robert Young; in Muncie...
Died. Samuel H. Kress, 92, founder and chairman (since 1924) of S. H. Kress & Co.. five-and-ten chain, famed artistic philanthropist; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...