Word: philanthropist
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Died. Constance, Lady Battersea, 88, grande dame of the British House of Rothschild, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild who stemmed from the original Frankfort family; in Overstrand, Norfolk, England. A philanthropist, temperance worker, Lady Battersea was a friend of Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra, Gladstone, Disraeli, Palmerston...
Died. Richard Teller Crane Jr., 58, president since 1914 of The Crane Co. of Chicago (plumbing fixtures), brother of onetime Minister to China Charles Richard Crane; of heart disease after a nervous breakdown; on his 58th birthday; in Manhattan. A philanthropist, giver of $10,000,000 worth of Crane stock to his employes, President Crane with a reputed fortune of $50,000,000 was rated Chicago's second richest man (next to Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck...
Died. Samuel Mather, 80, shipping, mining and steel tycoon (Pickands, Mather & Co.), first citizen of Cleveland; of heart disease; in Cleveland. Son of Samuel Livingston Mather who founded Cleveland Iron Mining Co. and the family fortune, he was a famed philanthropist, a director of U. S. Steel and many another great corporation. Holder of 60,000 shares of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., he battled Cyrus Stephen Eaton over a proposed merger with Bethlehem Steel Corp., won last week when the project was finally dropped. Steelman Mather's 15-year-old grandson took his own life (hanging) last month (TIME...
...tucked cosily beneath his arm, Violinist Harry Braun, 22, walked down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue one night last week. Protege of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and of Lieut. Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, pupil of the late great Leopold Auer, he was given his violin by Philanthropist August Heckscher. He was to play on it at his Carnegie Hall debut in January. As Violinist Braun crossed Fifth Avenue a truck came lumbering along. He dodged. The violin case slithered from under his arm, landed squarely in the truck's path. He waved wildly but there...
...While Philanthropist Macfadden lives and continues able, he intends to control his Foundation as autocratically as he controls his magazines and newspapers. After his death or upon his disability, trusted executives of his corporation are to run the Foundation in conjunction with his blood relatives (he has five daughters, two sons). Directors and employes may pay themselves with 25% of the Foundation's income...