Word: philanthropist
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...Last week in San Francisco, Drs. Tilton Edwin Tillman and Samuel George Boyd were arrested for mayhem, released on bail. On the ground that she was mentally incompetent, Dr. Tillman advised and Dr. Boyd had performed an operation sterilizing Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, great-granddaughter of the late great Philanthropist Peter Cooper, granddaughter of the late great Statesman Abram Stevens Hewitt, only child of the late great Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt. The charges were an outgrowth of a $500,000 damage suit which Ann Hewitt, claiming she had been sterilized during an appendectomy because her much-married mother wanted control...
...explained that it was written while he had a bad chest cold, scrawled out with his left hand because California handshakers had disabled his right. The Hecksher Foundation for Children launched a drive for winter relief funds in New York City with a poem composed by chipper, white-bearded Philanthropist August Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search thine immortal soul, Thy heart, thy heart beats lighter, What first we need is - COAL. In the weekly newspaper of Doom, The Netherlands, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern inserted an advertisement thanking the world Press for its interest in his 77th...
Married, Mrs. Mary Ann Payne Clews, 35, relict of Manhattan Banker James Blanchard Clews; and George Blumenthal, 77, retired Manhattan banker (Lazard Freres) and philanthropist; president of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mount Sinai Hospital and of the American Hospital in Paris; in Manhattan...
...classic feuds of U. S. industry. When Partner Carnegie tried to force Partner Frick to sell out on his own terms, Partner Frick chased him down the office building corridor. Thereafter both men were more or less free to indulge their hobbies: Carnegie, the Great Philanthropist ; Frick, the Art Collector...
Died. Joel Owsley Cheek, 83, retired coffee tycoon (Maxwell House), church worker, philanthropist; of pneumonia; in Jacksonville, Fla. After years of peddling coffee from house to house on horseback he organized Cheek-Neal Coffee Co., retired in 1928 when the company was sold to General Foods at a reputed price...