Word: benefactors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading roles, and others like Perey Kilbridge, the witty Yankee taxi driver, Frank Craven and Richard Whorf supporting them, the entire cast turns in a collectively good job of acting. The picture starts with the death of Robert Forest, a prominent and well loved politician, soldier, and public benefactor who turns out to be an enemy agent. Tracy, an admiring newspaper man back from the world battlefronts, dedicates himself to writing the story of Forest's life. He encounters Katharine Hephurn, Forest's wife, and in the process of investigation discovers that she could have prevented the accident...
That there can be business as usual despite total war was admirably demonstrated by a Harvard student who was trying, evidently without success, to convince a benefactor that he would get his twenty bucks as soon as the next check arrived from home...
...school personally until 1927, when they turned it over to a board of trustees so that endowments could be solicited. Taft himself soon raised $2,000,000-notably $300,000 from half-brother Charles Phelps Taft and $500,000 from Yale's and Harvard's great benefactor, Edward S. Harkness...
...property, which also contained the meeting house where John Harvard preached, is being completely converted at the expense of the unannounced benefactor...
...flagpole situated in the playground, the following tribute to John Harvard, the College's greatest benefactor is inscribed...