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...handed it a grand $5,000,000. Harvard wanted more money for the business school; he gave it another $1,000,000. The late great Henry Pomeroy Davison needed money for Red Cross work during the War; Mr. Baker gave $2,000,000. The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted Regault's painting "Salome"; Mr. Baker presented it. It wanted money; he gave $1,000,000. Cornell University asked for dormitories and chemical laboratories, and got $2,000,000 from Mr. Baker. And thus it has gone: $750,000 to New York Hospital, $100,000 to Johns Hopkins Eye Clinic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baker's Stewart | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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