Word: wilmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subsequently the first two such dealers were recommended for the Board and their own acceptance was this week announced by E. G. Wilmer, Chairman. They were C. M. Bishop, General Manager of Bishop, McCormick & Bishop of Brooklyn, and F. S. Albertson, President of the Albertson Motor Co. of Los Angeles. Both are "original" Dodge dealers, hard workers, good salesmen, thoughtful businessmen...
...cities having a Negro population of about a million, $2,750,000; to the University of Chicago and other institutions, $700,000; to the establishment of a University of Chicago Medical School, $500,000; to the Wilmer (Eye) Institute Fund of Johns Hopkins University, $50,000; to the creating of "neat and tidy" rural public schools for Negroes, $1,500,000; to European War Relief $1,000,000. One-third of his time does this Illinois-born Jew give to charitable, religious and educational enterprises. Little does he give to himself other than a pleasant, comfortable life. A member...
...summer workmen have hammered, walls have risen, grass has sprouted in Baltimore where the Wilmer Institute - greatest eye-research laboratory in the world- was being erected, equipped. Last week it was finished. Its fund- begun by Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root in gratitude to Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who saved her sight (TIME, Feb. 23)-is now $3,000,000. Dr. Wilmer is in complete charge. Rich and poor may go there for healing and only the rich will...
...Wilmer operated twice on her eyes, saved the sight of one. She learned that he had just paid, out of his own funds, a deficit of $6,000 incurred by his hospital, that he wanted to work at certain researches but lacked the time, the money. Forthwith she incorporated an endowment fund, called it the Wilmer Foundation, enlisted the help of prominent philanthropists. Money came rapidly. The Rockefeller Board of Education offered, if $1,500,000 could be raised, to add another $1,500,000 for the establishment of a great hospital for eye diseases, under Dr. Wilmer's direction...
From Earl Grey, British statesman, a former patient of Dr. Wilmer's, a check; from J. P. Morgan, $100,000; from George F. Baker and George F. Baker Jr., $100,000; from Frank Munsey, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Julius Rosenwald, Joseph E. Widener, Felix M. Warburg, Samuel Sachs, Benjamin Stern, Mrs. Henry R. Rea, James Speyer and other contributors, came generous gifts...