Word: philanthropist
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...shipwrecked harvester in competition with spick-&-span machines, won the contest, increased his sales. Frank Munsey never once during 25 years forgot that a certain associate was deaf in his right ear. Dwight Morrow surprised Calles by being human. A University President got a second million out of a philanthropist by making sure that the first million was thoroughly publicized. Famed Realtor Joseph P. Day sold an old-fashioned office building to Steel's late great Judge Gary by a neat appeal to sentiment...
Sorely hit was Philanthropist Felix M. Warburg, who has put more than $1,000,000 into the Jewish National Home. With quiet dignity he announced that Lord Passfield had "misled" him. He declared: "So complete was our confidence and faith in the British Government that millions of pounds were poured into Palestine." He resigned in protest his Chairmanship of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Agency...
Murdered. Louis Bush, 60, Washington philanthropist, president of Gray Lines Motor Tours Inc. of Washington; by a footpad who hid in the Bush garage, shot Mr. Bush thrice as he was putting his motor away for the night...
Died. Milton Alexander McRae, 72, newspaper man and philanthropist, with the late Edward Wyllis Scripps founder of the oldtime Scripps-McRae (since 1921 Scripps-Howard) news combine from which he retired in 1907, ex-president of Harper Hospital of Detroit, vice-president of Scripps Memorial Hospital and Scripps Metabolic Clinic in La Jolla, Calif., one-time president of the Boy Scouts of America; after an abdominal operation, at Scripps Memorial Hospital...
Married. Margaret Helen Phipps, granddaughter of late Steelman Philanthropist Henry Phipps (died two weeks ago), cousin of Poloist Winston Guest, niece of Socialite Mrs. Bradley Martin; and J. Gordon Douglas Jr., son of Mrs. Graf ton Winthrop Minot of New York; at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City...