Word: philanthropist
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...supposed to be one of the ten richest men in the U. S. But when Death came to John Emory Andrus at 93 last week, the best the Press could do was to identify him as the "millionaire straphanger." Indeed the Press never heard of the financier-philanthropist until he was past 60. And then it spotted him, a shy, parsimonious, white-bearded old gentleman, because he always rode the subway to his Manhattan office until he was 86. A few oldsters remembered that the First Citizen of Yonkers, N. Y. had served four consecutive terms in the House...
...Oxford Union has been, could find potential U. S. statesmen in the two young men with famed names who headed the Yale Political Union: president. Max Franklin Millikan, '35, son of Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan; vice president, August Heckscher II, '36, grandson of the Manhattan philanthropist...
...Columbia dedicated new South Hall, a block-shaped brick-&-limestone library, built with $4,000,000 from Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, designed as a "working laboratory" for scholars...
Married. Grace Dodge, daughter of President Bayard Dodge of the American University of Beirut, Syria, granddaughter of the late Cleveland Hoadley Dodge, copperman (Phelps Dodge) and philanthropist who gave enormous War profits to Near East Relief and other benevolences; and John Bartow Olmsted II of Buffalo; in Riverdale...
...hardly were paint & plaster dry on the new mansions when Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness came along with some $10,000,000 and an idea that Yale should be broken up into small residential colleges on the English plan. Last autumn his idea became a reality. Each upperclassman was required to eat at least ten meals per week, at $5.50, in his college. For $2.50 more he could have all his meals there. Fraternity treasuries felt the pinch as members dropped away from dining rooms, their chief sources of income. Mortgage payments came hard, and so did the fat sums which...