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Chief financiers of Negro health programs are the U. S. Public Health Service and the Rosenwald Fund for Negroes, established in 1917 by Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald of Chicago. Since 1928, the Fund has given $1,250,000 to build Negro hospitals,* train doctors and nurses, help out the two Negro medical schools-Howard in Washington, Meharry in Nashville...
Flint-Goodridge. Eight years ago, the only place for sick Negroes in New Orleans was the halls of ancient Charity Hospital, where patients slept two and three in a bed. And there was not a hospital a Negro doctor could practice in. In 1931 the Rosenwald Fund, the Congregational and Methodist Episcopal Churches started a fund to build a hospital for New Orleans' 130,000 Negroes. Cotton Merchant Edgar Bloom Stern, son-in-law of Julius Rosenwald, boomed up a campaign for more money. In a town where only two charity campaigns had reached their quota in 15 years...
...University of Chicago, decade ago, Katherine Dunham majored in anthropology, with her eye on the dance as a primitive social manifestation. On the side she taught dancing, formed dance groups. In 1936 Miss Dunham persuaded the Rosenwald Foundation to send her to the West Indies to study the dances of Jamaica, Haiti, Martinique, Trinidad. Un like most anthropologists, Miss Dunham could break down the shyness of her subjects by cutting expert capers. Awed Haitians were sure she had "a piece" of their native god. Conversing in English and French patois, she picked up many a trick step, including...
...roll call of his paper's stockholders reads like a list of Dun & Bradstreet's AA ratings. Some of them: John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; Marshall Field III; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s George Huntington Hartford II; Chewing Gum's Philip Knight Wrigley; Marion Rosenwald Stern and her brother, Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Lawyer Garrard Bigelow Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury in Calvin Coolidge's Administration; Producer Dwight Deere Wiman; Columnist Dorothy Thompson...
...JULIUS ROSENWALD-M. R. Werner-Harper ($3.50). Able Biographer Werner (Barnum, Bryan} here writes an "authorized" but exceedingly honest monument to the head of Sears, Roebuck. Rosenwald carefully gave away some $63,000,000; "he did not give it away in the form of high wages." As philanthropist and multimillionaire, he had delusions neither of sanctimony nor of grandeur, was one of the most modest of U. S. rich...