Word: philanthropist
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Left. By Nathan Straus, Jewish philanthropist and merchant of Manhattan; an estate appraised at $1,302,658, the bulk of it in securities. He had explained in his will: "I have always been deeply impressed by an old Jewish proverb which says: 'What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold, what you give in sickness is silver, and what you give after death is lead.' (Many of the rich do not even give lead...
...Walter Scott (her father), Manhattan merchant and philanthropist L.H.D...
Married. William Hale Harkness, cousin of Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, brother-in-law of David Sinton Ingalls, Republican nominee for Governor of Ohio; and Elisabeth Grant, Manhattan socialite...
...Yale which announced last week a radically new athletic policy. Though de-emphasis of athletics will be the result, it was not the sole cause of Yale's step. It was necessitated by Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness' $12,000,000 "house plan" under which Yale's undergraduates are to live in ten communities, each with its own club-rooms, dining-hall, instead of in dormitories. The athletic policy, to begin in September 1933, was outlined by President James Rowland Angell...
Married. Elbridge Gerry II, polo player, grandson of the late philanthropist and founder of the S. P. C. C., and of the late, great Edward Henry Harriman; and Marjorie Y. Kane, Manhattan socialite; by Rt. Rev. Frank Du Moulin, onetime Bishop Coadjutor of Ohio* in Locust Valley, Long Island...