Word: philanthropists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marble bust of plump, pretty Sabine (aged two),by her father, famed French Sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), was bought by Philanthropist Edward S. Harkness and is still owned by his widow...
...took a poll last night asking students why they gave to the charities they had indicated. One student said he gave to the Council because some time he might "need a loan" from them. Another said it was "social compulsion" and a third said he wanted to "be a philanthropist...
...Being a Christian means more than being a philanthropist or a humanitarian," said the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, and a generation of New Yorkers learned to know what he meant. For most Episcopalians and for many people of other faiths during a quarter of a century, the high-domed Manning forehead and austere, ascetic face symbolized high authority and strict orthodoxy-in theology, liturgy and life...
...first to take pity on the wretched climbing-boys was Philanthropist Jonas Hanway, who in 1770 formed a "Friendly Society" and in 1785 published A Sentimental History of Chimney...
...Woman's Causes. The angel who backed Ted Thackrey's new start in journalism is 82-year-old Mrs. Emmons Blaine, a strong-willed Chicago philanthropist who bought full-page ads in her Cousin Bertie McCormick's Tribune to plump for Roosevelt in '36, '40 and '44, when the Trib was denouncing him. Daughter of Reaper King Cyrus McCormick and heiress to his millions, "Aunt Anita" Elaine is the daughter-in-law of James G. ("Rum, Romanism and Rebellion") Elaine. She lives in a cavernous house on East Erie Street, is rarely seen...