Word: philanthropist
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...Waddles at 925-0901." More than likely, the problem would have been taken care of with compassion and dispatch. Until a story in the Detroit Free Press embarrassed city officials, off-hours calls for financial aid, emotional assistance or emergency relief were referred to Mother Waddles, 59, a freelance philanthropist whom Mayor Roman Gribbs calls "an urban saint...
...spent an estimated $10 million, even though he faced no serious challenge in the primaries. To raise the money, he drew upon an assortment of well-known and not-so-well-known contributors. Insurance Millionaire W. Clement Stone, Chicago's-and perhaps the country's-foremost political philanthropist, has said that he gave Nixon more than $500,000 for his preconvention and election campaign. Others who contributed more than generously included John Hay Whitney, Colorado Oilman John M. King, and John Olin of the Illinois chemical family...
Jackson and has long been in charge of his fundraising. Another law-school classmate and Seattle jeweler, Paul Friedlander, is a big backer. Two other angels are Dan Martin, a large stockholder in the Los Angeles Rams, and Victor Carter, a Los Angeles philanthropist. Jackson's staffers contend that an insignificant portion of his financing flows from the military-industrial community. GEORGE McGOVERN. Though he stands at just 4% in the Democratic popularity polls, McGovern has the most admirable fund-raising operation of all. Without relying upon the checkbooks of the big spenders, he has raised...
...Idea. The idea that the best prescription for cancer is financial is an old one. Mary Lasker, the longtime medical philanthropist, has strenuously urged the nation to commit more of its resources to the search for a cancer cure. She has argued that the National Cancer Institute, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, lacks the means to exploit many of its important findings. Last year Mrs. Lasker picked up some powerful support in Congress when a special commission put forth her favorite proposal: a $6 billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation...
...Irwin Miller, LL.D., philanthropist and chairman of the Cummins Engine Co. As a leading member of the Establishment, you do not want to sink the boat, but you are not afraid to rock...