Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named for Philanthropist John McDonogh, who bequeathed part of his fortune to establish public schools in New Orleans...
Died. Junius Spencer Morgan, 68, banker, philanthropist and expert yachtsman in the tradition of his father, J. P. Morgan, and grandfather, J. Pierpont Morgan; after an emergency operation for an intestinal hemorrhage; in an Ontario hospital after a hunting trip. Pipe-smoking and softspoken, he never made big headlines like J. Pierpont or J. P. II, and once gratefully accepted a 1? refund on his federal income...
...more than hay: "I'm forever yours devotedly. I take no interest in mere females, but I love all artists." To prove it, Shaw wrote Major Barbara for her. At the top of her profession, the 30-year-old actress married 57-year-old Banker-Philanthropist-Sportsman August Belmont after making a Pollyannaish farewell appearance as Glad in Frances Hodgson (Little Lord Fauntleroy) Burnett's Dawn of a Tomorrow. Actress Robson's last stage line: "I'm going to be tuk care...
...late Philanthropist Vincent Astor is likely to go down in U.S. tax annals as the multimillionaire with the leastest -for the revenuers. Astor, who died last year at 67, left an estate appraised last week by New York State tax commissioners at an impressive $127,377,021.34. Out of this mountainous greenery came a nadir of sorts in mid-20th century U.S. estate taxes: $253,869.44-less than 0.2% of the amount that Astor could not take with him. How did Testator Astor do it? It seemed, under New York State and federal inheritance statutes, kind of easy: he left...
...bargain collectively with their producers. The producers capitulated after 30 days, during which New Yorkers consoled themselves with flicks, pickup vaudeville and impromptu sidewalk skirmishes. Last week, once again, Broadway theaters were deserted, and Shubert Alley was so dark that one could not tell a producer from a philanthropist. At the end of an artistically and financially dreary season, New York's commercial theater was shut down in an eruption of Broadway's economic anarchy...