Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casino operations in Nevada. An emptily handsome U.S. Senator commands attention in order to acknowledge receipt of Michael's handsomely empty contribution to the state university's scholarship fund. Inevitably, the lawmaker finds it impossible to throw his Western accent around a proper pronunciation of the new philanthropist's name. Equally inevitably, a boy choir has been recruited to sing a song dedicated to Michael Corleone...
Died. Paul G. Hoffman, 83, statesman and global philanthropist; in New York City. A born salesman, Hoffman quit college at 18 to sell Studebakers in Los Angeles, cleared his first million at age 34 and became president of Studebaker ten years later. Impressed by his success in turning the ailing auto firm around, President Truman asked him in 1948 to head the Marshall Plan; over the next 2% years Hoffman dispensed more than $10 billion to revive Western Europe's war-shattered economy in a successful effort that brilliantly proved his argument that "prosperity is the best antidote...
...Washington Columnist Jack Anderson added some new perspective to the film's history when he revealed that Millhouse was partly financed by three nieces of Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller. According to Anderson, Peggy and Abby, daughters of Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller, and Laura, daughter of Philanthropist Laurance Rockefeller, together anted up $37,000 of the movie's $200,000 cost. A Rockefeller family spokesman confirmed that the women had indeed made an investment (though not as much as Anderson had reported), and pointed out that they are used to making their own financial and political...
From an early age, Nelson was a different kind of Rockefeller, more outgoing, less cost-conscious than his four brothers. While they tended to reflect their father John D. Jr., a shy philanthropist and devout Baptist, Nelson was closer to his mother Abby, the daughter of the powerful Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich. It was Abby who imbued her son with a tender social conscience and a lifelong love...
...writer, a retired industrialist (he was head of Norton Simon Inc.), is an art collector and philanthropist...