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Britain's greatest and most completely self-made philanthropist is today Lord Nuffield, raised in the New Year's Honors list from baron to viscount (TIME, Jan. 10). About a month ago Nufneld registered privately in high Fleet Street quarters a mild protest at the habit English reporters had of describing him as plain and hearty "Bill" Morris, the bucolic bicycle maker of Oxford who cleverly expanded into building Morris cars and grew so rich in 25 years that to Oxford University alone he has given $17,700,000 (TIME...
Meanwhile in the French Concession at Shanghai two Chinese disguised as orange peddlers assassinated one of China's leading businessmen and her leading Christian philanthropist. Joseph Lo Pa-hong, Knight of the French Legion of Honor, Papal Knight-Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester, etc. Last November 11, the Catholic sisters of Maryknoll, Ossining, N. Y., received a cable from the sisters of their Mercy Hospital for the Insane near Shanghai reading: "Can you send money for food? Lo bankrupt." Mr. Lo, who had long supported Mercy Hospital, had slid from being one of the richest...
Died. Kate Sturges Buckingham, 79, Chicago art patron, philanthropist; of heart disease; in Chicago. Of Miss Buckingham's numerous gifts to Chicago, most spectacular was $1,000,000 she gave in 1927 for the Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain in Grant Park, which she endowed...
...weeks before his death last December, 78-year-old Philanthropist Mc-Kinlock asked the Northwestern trustees to cancel his contract to finance the campus. His holdings had depreciated so greatly during the Depression that he could not meet his pledges. Last week Northwestern made public an agreement which showed, that far from being spiteful towards a former benefactor who had had misfortune, it had made an arrangement with him to change the name of its campus and refund to the McKinlock family in five annual installments $155,717 which he had already paid...
...rest of the day. On the same day the New York Times printed in honor of one man three columns of close-packed memorial notices. Demonstrations of sympathy occurred in such far-flung places as London, Jerusalem, Paris. For death had come to Felix Moritz Warburg, 66, banker, philanthropist, recognized leader of U. S. Jews...