Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...established position in both New York and Washington society. Major Granville Fortescue, her father, has a distinguished military record, was at one time aide at the White House, and is an author of repute. Miss Fortescue's grandfather is Charles J. Bell, president of the American Security and Trust Co. of Washington, D. C. The late Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was her great-uncle. Among other of Miss Fortescue's distinguished relations, are the late President Theodore Roosevelt; A. T. Robinson, Assistant Secretary of Navigation and Gilbert Grosvenor, editor of the National Geographic Magazine...
...Annie Downing Wilson of Cambridge has left $150,000 in trust as an endowment fund, the income of which will be used to maintain a professorship to be known at the Robert Wheeler Wilson professorship of applied astronomy...
...arranging the details of the debate with Russell while in the cab, Dr. Durant displayed his fairness in stating. "No, I shall want no final rebuttal. If I were dealing with a rufflan, I should want one to lambaste my opponent, but I trust my friend, here...
...Rhodes Scholarship Trusiees are erecting a large building to be known as Rhodes House, at Oxford University, as a center for the activities and influences of the Trust, according to information recently received here from Oxford, England. The new structure has a three-fold purpose. It will, in the first place, provide a central hall for the annual dinners which are given in accordance with Cecil Rhodes will. A library with shelf space for 60,000 volumes will also be installed in the building to relieve the congestion in Bodleian Library. Finally, Rhodes House is to serve as a gathering...
...Great Hall will serve for lectures by distinguished public men and other gatherings in harmony with purposes of the Trust. Adjoining the Hall will be a room for the recording of the names of Rhodes Scholars deemed worthy of commemoration by reason of their performance of public duty. Rhodes Scholars who died in the World War will be the first group so memorialized. Lord Milner, one of the original Trustees, will have a particular memorial. The east wing is to contain the house and office of the Oxford Secretary of the Trust...