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Word: benefactors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Selecting a name which corresponded to the maiden name of his wife from a New York telephone book, Mueller dispatched a letter which he hoped would, and which did, bring the affidavit necessary for U.S. entry from an unknown benefactor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Viennese Bookseller, Forced Out o. Country, Continues Work in Square | 12/6/1941 | See Source »

...Shreve Memorial Library, named after our "benefactor," has in its files considerable data on Shreve and his work. . . . Captain Henry Shreve is one Yankee whom this part of the South does not choose to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...Varsity crew will be the guests of the Harvard Club, while the other boats that composted last spring at New London will attend as the guests of Herrick, Benefactor of rowing at Harvard for many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crow Squad Celebrate Victory Over Yale at Harvard Club | 10/24/1941 | See Source »

...Szigeti must have known what they were in for when they joined Petrillo's union, for Little Caesar Petrillo has long vowed to bring the Boston Symphony to heel. It is now the only big non-union orchestra in the U.S. Following the policy of its late benefactor Colonel Henry Lee Higginson, the Symphony pays union-scale wages and pensions, but believes that union limitations on rehearsals, hirings and firings would do it artistic harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Aut Caesar Aut Nullus | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

Having paid a visit to the university's statue of his distinguished ancestor, Refugee John Harvard Baker, 9, direct descendant of Harvard's first big benefactor, broadcast disappointedly to his father in Scarborough, England: "He doesn't look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 3, 1941 | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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