Word: charitarian
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...Cross national chairman, E. Roland Harriman of Groton, Yale ('17) and Brown Brothers, is a selfless charitarian of long standing, but he is not noted for diplomacy. He was in a particularly undiplomatic mood last week when he arose at Los Angeles to address the 1954 convention of the Red Cross. "Developments in recent disaster operations," he said severely, would force Red Cross to return to its prewar policy of making special fund drives to help stricken cities rather than continuing to furnish aid out of its general fund. As a case in point, Harriman pointed to Flint, Mich...
...Nominated Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, multimillionaire charitarian and coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, as Under Secretary (at $17,500 a year) to Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby...
...Bush (née Spore) was born near Bay City, Mich. She is a sister of the late U.S. Navy Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam. In her time she has practiced dentistry, and as a lavish Manhattan charitarian she became known as "The Angel of the Bowery...
...Director Dunnington's opinion was important. Reluctantly, he felt that the chairman's tongue-wagging had made him unfit for so responsible a job. Solidly behind him were the company's other Manhattan directors, particularly Banker William Steele Gray Jr., Broker Henry Upham Harris, Charitarian Barklie Henry...
...millionaire, charitarian Louis Blaustein, death came in 1937, few months after he had filed one of the most potent lawsuits ever brought in New York County's Supreme Court. Main defendants: Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); great Standard Oil Co. (N. J.); its operating subsidiary, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Last week stocky, easygoing Son Jacob was head of the Blaustein family and administrator of its Baltimore charities when Justice Samuel Irving Rosenman (onetime Governor's Counsel to F. D. R.) handed down a decision in the case...