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Thomas W. Lamont '92, Chairman of the board of J. P. Morgan and Company and widely known philanthropist died just before midnight last night at his home in Boca Grande, Florida a member of the Morgan firm announced early today...
Baltimoreans, observing their city's 150th anniversary, nominated their greatest citizen. The late Financier-Philanthropist Johns Hopkins won first place, the late Cardinal Gibbons second, Edgar Allan Poe, third. Way down the list, but on it with 21 votes: the Duchess of Windsor...
Died. Baron Henri de Rothschild, 75. French financier, physician, philanthropist and viniculturist; of a heart ailment; near Lausanne, Switzerland. Probably the most noteworthy of the Rothschilds, Baron Henri won respect for his work on infants' diseases, on milk as a food, and on the radium treatment of cancer (he set up the famed Pierre Curie Institute for radium research). He also found time to write plays for the Paris stage...
...chosen by the President to lead the way into this wilderness consisted of five men, because no one man alone could be expected to bear such responsibilities. Four of them might have been picked at random from the leaders of U.S. society: a Midwestern editor, a scientist, a banker-philanthropist, an industrialist. Their salaries were $15,000 a year...
...Prize-winning editor of the Des Moines Register. The scientist was Robert Fox Bacher, 41, cool, deliberate, diplomatic, the head of nuclear research at Cornell University and one of the scientists who assembled, the first atomic bomb. The banker was Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 51, a mellow, courtly, impeccably dressed philanthropist, partner in New York's Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The industrialist was tall, rangy Sumner Pike, 55, a bachelor and adventurous industrialist with a shrewd, twangy Yankee humor...