Word: philanthropist
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...most notable Leftist writers of the day wrote for Villard: Norman Thomas, Stuart Chase, Paul Y. Anderson, Heywood Broun, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. By 1935 they had far outstripped Villard's radical leanings, and he sold The Nation. Maurice Wertheim, a Manhattan financier and philanthropist, owned it for a brief spell, then passed it on in 1937 to Freda Kirchwey...
When shrewd, alert little George Backer bought the New York Post last June, he knew that it was losing around $500,000 a year, knew also that he would have to sink more money in it. A city councilman (representing the American Labor Party) and philanthropist, president of the Jewish Telegraph Agency, George Backer at 37 was rich from the proceeds of his Manhattan real-estate business. He thought he could spare the money...
Edward S. Harkness, Harvard's greatest benefactor, who donated money for the House systems here and at Yale, died suddenly Monday night. University officials yesterday expressed deep great at the death of the unassuming philanthropist, who had done so much for education here and throughout the country...
...fortunes of opera stars in his spare time. Piggy Warburg announced his partnership in an official release tracing his career as a "worker in every branch of the Baltimore & Ohio," as stoker in Central Hudson Gas & Electric Co. power plant, vice president in the Bank of Manhattan Co., and philanthropist - failed to explain his interest in brokerage...
JULIUS ROSENWALD-M. R. Werner-Harper ($3.50). Able Biographer Werner (Barnum, Bryan} here writes an "authorized" but exceedingly honest monument to the head of Sears, Roebuck. Rosenwald carefully gave away some $63,000,000; "he did not give it away in the form of high wages." As philanthropist and multimillionaire, he had delusions neither of sanctimony nor of grandeur, was one of the most modest of U. S. rich...