Word: philanthropists
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Died. George Denver Guggenheim, 32, millionaire bachelor son and only remaining child of Philanthropist Simon Guggenheim; by his own hand (rifle) in a Manhattan hotel. Member of the executive committee and a director of American Smelting and Refining Co., of which his father is president, a director of General Cable Corp., trustee of a $1,000,000 trust fund, George Guggenheim suffered from a nervous disorder, had recently tried to slash his wrists. When his brother, John Simon, died in 1922 of mastoiditis, his parents established in his memory the famed Guggenheim Foundation (for international study), now capitalized...
Died. Sir Charles W. Lindsay, 83, blind Canadian philanthropist, a piano-tuner who built up a $2,000,000 musical instrument business, was knighted in 1935 for his donations and services to the blind; of paralysis; in Montreal...
...greatest living British philanthropist and one of the Empire's greatest armorers is William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield. Not quite bold enough to attack Lord Nuffield directly as a profiteer, Laborite Stokes made allegations in the House of Commons about two firms, which he called "A" and "B," bidders as subcontractors to Nuffield Mechanisations & Aero...
When the British wanted to honor the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, famed Victorian philanthropist, they did it with a pun. His memorial fountain in London's bustling Piccadilly Circus is topped by an aluminum winged archer shooting an arrow downward ("burying a shaft"). Popularly, the statue is known as the god of love, Eros. Tradition has it that, while Eros stands in Piccadilly, no Londoner can be arrested for kissing a girl. Last week, if any Londoner felt like kissing in public, he had to watch his step; for Eros was removed-for the duration of World...
Bemis's relatives have strenuously contested the will on the ground that the late philanthropist was not in his right mind...