Word: philanthropist
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...facts are pleasing to seamy-faced Dr. Gabriel Davidson, who last week rendered his 30th annual report as general manager of the Jewish Agricultural Society. Established in 1900, the Society is still backed by a fund set up by Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-96), the great German Jewish philanthropist who spent millions trying to improve the lot of European Jews, to get them to emigrate from their ghettos. In 1900 there were 200 Jewish farmers in the U. S. Today, although many Americans have never seen any Jewish farmers, there are nearly 100,000, many of whom have benefited...
Died. George Foster Peabody, 85, philanthropist and educator, trustee of Warm Springs Foundation, owner of "Yaddo," retreat for artists & authors at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; of heart disease in Warm Springs, Ga. In 25 years with Manhattan's Spencer Trask & Co. he built up a huge fortune. Said he: "But when I came to see in 1906 that the money which I had amassed was the work of others, I then and there decided to retire from business and become my own executor, to administer for the people that which rightfully belonged to them...
...home. He began to write his most important works in the early 1920s while serving as director of the Cleveland Institute of Music. He left Cleveland after a row with the Institute's management in 1925. settled in San Francisco. Today, supported by a wealthy Pacific Coast philanthropist, he divides his time between California and Switzerland...
Died. Rachel Peixotto Hays Sulzberger, 77, mother of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times; widow of the late Philanthropist Cyrus L. Sulzberger; herself an active social worker (United Neighborhood Houses, New York parks Anti-Litter Committee, Aguilar Library Association); after long illness; in Manhattan...
Down the centuries the name Morrice became Moris, Morres, Morys, then changed to Morris before the present Lord Numeld was born in Cowley. His identified ancestors include mayors, aldermen, country squires, judges, surgeons. Nuffield's father was a Hurst's Grammar School man, but the great philanthropist himself attended only the village school. Hurst's Grammar School never ranked with Eton, but Nuffield many years ago bought it and converted it into his motor firm's offices. Now he owns it, and no 011 Etonian's son owns Eton. For his home he bought...