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There were ten donors to the fund, Julius Rosenwald of Chicago gave $50,000 toward the foundation of the chair. Henry Goldman '78 subscribed $40,000, and Felix Warburg of New York City subscribed $25,000. The other donors included C. J. Liebman '98, of New York; Theodore Battenhausen of New York; J. F. Schoellkopf of Buffalo, N. Y; Julius Goldman of New York City;, P. M. Warburg of New York City; F. A. O. Schwarz '24; and Henry Schwarz '29, both of Greenwich, Connecticut...
...hundreds of Palestine Jews burnt out of their homes or left orphaned, widowed, destitute. London Bankers James A. de Rothschild quickly followed with a like sum. So did Manhattan's Felix Warburg, who was in London. A fourth $25,000 was pledged by Chicago's Julius Rosenwald, and a fifth by Manhattan's Nathan Straus. Before the week was out, Mr. Straus had doubled his $25,000 pledge and lesser contributions from world Jewry poured in at such a rate that officials of the Palestine Emergency Fund said that they would be able to forward a quarter...
...nominees for the Commission, which has yet to be called into official existence by the city government: Alfred S. Austrian Augustus Stephen Peabody Francis X. Busch James D. Cunningham Charles Piez William Ruggles Dawes George McClelland Reynolds George 0. Fairweather John Fitzpatrick Carl Richter Harold Edwin Foreman J ulius Rosenwald Earl George Gubbins Herbert D. Simpson J. L. Jacobs James Simpson D. F. Kelly Albert Arnold Sprague Clayton Mark Silas Hardy Strawn Charles Edward Merriam A. W. Swayne Melvin Alvah Traylor Joseph Roberts Noel Frank F. Winans Victor A. Olander George Woodruff
...chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, gave away another million dollars and again marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans), Augustus Juilliard (commission merchant, music), Julius Rosenwald (mailorder, Jews, Negroes), James B. Duke (tobacco, waterpower, his university, preachers), Mrs. Russell Sage (railroads, surveys) have given their scores of millions. All these have given largely and chiefly to found institutions and movements they have initiated...
Died. Augusta Nusbaum Rosenwald, 60, of Chicago, wife of Julius Rosenwald. famed Philanthropist-President of Sears Roebuck & Co.; in Chicago...