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Died. William H. Hoover, 82, philanthropist, founder and board chairman, of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners); after a short illness; in Canton, Ohio. His eldest son, Herbert W. (no kin to Herbert Clark Hoover), is president of the concern. Founder Hoover developed the vacuum cleaner from a friction sweeping device invented by a Cleveland janitor who, having asthma, hated dust...
Died. Mrs. Anne Weightman Penfield, 88, philanthropist, onetime "richest woman in the U. S.," relict of the late and last Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Frederic Courtland Penfield; of pneumonia, after one day's illness; in Manhattan. At the death of her father, William Weightman, "the quinine king," she was sole heiress to a fortune of between $35,000,000 and $50,000,000, founded during the Civil War by selling quinine to the Federal Government (the old firm, Powers Si Weightman, was absorbed by Merck...
...Kabibble," whose creator is an extremely race-proud Jew. One of Cartoonist Hershfield's proudest boasts is that the late great philanthropist Nathan Straus used to send him ideas for "Abie." Sample Straus...
...magazine profits from general reputation.) In the opinion of TIME'S publishers the advertising purpose was well accomplished; further expenditure on radio at this time would not justify itself. Thus was raised a question of responsibility: Should TIME, or any other business, feel obliged to be the "philanthropist of the air," to continue paying for radio advertising it does not want in order to provide Radio with something worthwhile? Or is it up to the Radio Chains to improve the quality of broadcasts even at some reduction in their fat profits...
...Italiana, Casa de las Espanas, Japanese Culture Centre. Newest agency in Columbia's expansion is a projected $20,000,000 -Engineering Centre which would provide research facilities as great as those of the Medical Center. Upon the completion of this and the $3,500.000 library donated last year by Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, Columbia's development will probably become qualitative rather than quantitative...