Word: philanthropist
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...early civilizations were soap users, their soap tycoons are lost to memory. In present times the great and only soap tycoon was the late Lord Leverhulme (William Hesketh Lever, 1851-1925) who while he was developing Lever Bros. (Sunlight, Lux, Lifebuoy) also developed the Belgian Congo. Art lover, collector, philanthropist, Lord Leverhulme to the day of his death maintained that his was the largest soap company in the world. Today Procter & Gamble dispute the claim, which has never satisfactorily been settled. Earnings of Lever Bros. last year were approximately $26,000,000; earnings of P. & G., $19,148,943 (Colgate...
Announcement was made yesterday that George Eastman, Rochester philanthropist and manufacturer, has given an additional $100,000 for the salary and expenses of the George Eastman visiting professor at Oxford, a chair established by Eastman last year with an initial gift...
...likely to be sole field general in the battle. Seven sons had old Meyer Guggenheim, the founder of the house, and four still share one common office, sometimes called the world's copper capital. Here is the venerable Simon, now president of American Smelting & Refining Co.; Daniel, the philanthropist; Murry, the shrewdest financial mind of the four and an expert on copper prices; Solomon, sportsman, cosmopolite, a specialist in metallurgical
...down at Soldiers Field yesterday but the two teams involved did everything in their power to make the fifty odd spectators think otherwise. The Harvard and Bates nines played through nine innings of frigid baseball and Harvard won the decision 14 to 9, just because Bates was the better philanthropist...
Died. Mrs. Lina Gutherz Straus, 77, wife of Philanthropist Nathan Straus, with him student and popularizer of milk-pasteurization; at her home, "Driftwood," Mamaroneck...