Word: philanthropist
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...York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.; President Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central System; Lawyer Jack Johnson Spalding of Atlanta, Ga.; Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee Angus Daniel McDonald of Southern Pacific Co.; Banker Joseph Henry O'Neil of Boston; Banker Elisha Walker of Manhattan; Philanthropist Dennis Francis Kelly of Chicago; President Bernard Joseph Rothwell of Bay State Milling Co., Boston; Paul E. Fitzpatrick of Brown, Durrel Co., Boston; John Duff of New Bedford, Mass.; John F. Tensley of Worcester, Mass.; Vice President Michael Lester Madden of Hollingsworth & Whitney Co., Boston; Theodore F. McManus of Detroit.- Soon after...
Died. Nathan Straus, 82, great philanthropist and Jewish leader; of heart disease and high blood pressure; in Manhattan. He was born in Rhenish Bavaria in 1848, son of Lazarus Straus, who came to the U. S. in 1854, settled in Talbotton, Ga. Eldest brother was Isidor (later famed in the building up of Straus stores, victim with his wife of the Titanic disaster in 1912); youngest was Oscar Solomon (first Jew to hold a cabinet post, Secretary of Commerce & Labor, 1906-09, twice Minister, once Ambassador to Turkey; died in 1926). Ruined by the Civil War, the family came...
...educational renaissance is at hand in the East, no man should feel more intimately connected herewith than Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist. To help Harvard and his own Yale escape the contemporary trend towards standardized mass education, he has given them more than $20,000,000 to divide their undergraduate colleges into compact, wieldy "houses." Last week it was announced that the Harkness "house plan" would also be made available to one of the biggest U. S. preparatory schools. Mr. Harkness gave $7,000,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy...
...leaders of the U. S. colony in Paris are three elderly gentlemen: elegant, wasp-waisted Berry Wall, once New York's Best-Dressed Man; dignified Wil liam Nelson Cromwell, who has the curious distinction of being the financial angel of the Legion of Honor; and Art Benefactor and Philanthropist Edward Tuck. As a man and as a resident of Paris, Philanthropist Tuck, 88, is senior of the three. He first went to Paris in 1864 as vice-consul, appointed by Abraham Lincoln. His friends know that he is the least Parisian of the three, that he still looks...
...exiles are supported by the sale of their family jewels. As supplies run low, however, it is then found that some mysterious benefactor is secretly placing large denomination bills in Xenia's purse. The question of the identity of the anonymous philanthropist and the truly Parisian romance that follows bring the play to its final climax...