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...Archeological Museum got $1,680,000. Half a million helped build the Shakespeare Memorial Foundation theatre at Stratford upon Avon. A million and a half went to Germany's Heidelberg and Göttingen Universities, London's University College, China's Lingnan University, Japan's Tsuda College. Mr. Rockefeller's biggest single foreign handout was to France's Comité Franco-Américain pour la Restauration des Monuments...
...Frank A. Vanderlip decided to give a Japanese garden party at Beechwood, Scarborough-on-the- Hudson, for the benefit of Tsuda College, destroyed by the Japanese earthquake. They wanted to invite Secretary Hughes and Ambassador Hani-hara. So they martialed a flock of carrier pigeons and the 102nd Aviation Squadron of the National Guard at Staten Island, to deliver a message to each of these distinguished diplomats. Lieutenant J. Kendrick, of the Aviation Squadron, was equipped with a Curtiss plane-familiarly known as a "Jenny," powered with a 100-horsepower engine and capable of 70 to 75 miles an hour...