Word: davison
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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After his press ordeal, Dr. Einstein had a good time in Manhattan. He looked up two old friends, Poet Rabindranath Tagore and Violinist Fritz Kreisler, called upon John Davison Rockefeller Jr., met Helen Keller. Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, invited the Einsteins to a concert, sat them in a box belonging to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. - So impressed were U. S. citizens with the fame of their guest that few atteided the significance of his remarks. At a meeting of the New History Society, Bahai (universal worship) organization, he urged all pacifists to organize, suggested...
After having played golf matches with John Davison Rockefeller for many a year, Brig.-General Adelbert Ames, 95, onetime (1874-76) Governor of Mississippi, announced that his infirmities required him to give up the game. Said he: "Maybe you think it would be great to be 95 years old, but when you get there it looks different. You have outlived all your own generation and you no longer care for candy or the other things that youth loves. It gets to be pretty lonesome. Things have changed. Nobody walks, everybody rides, and they don't stop?they go right...
...Mulk Nizam-ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Sir Usman Ali Khan Bahadur Fateh Jung, 44, the Nizam of Hyderabad in India (TIME, Nov. 24). His wealth in gold bricks and coins is estimated at $1,000,000,000. His wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next is John Pierpont Morgan. Below this quintet come Sir Basil Zaharoff and His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda...
...against giving him so much loose change with no strings attached, the House Appropriations Committee framed a bill for $110,000,000 to be used on road building, waterways, flood control, etc., promised that the balance would be forthcoming in the routine supply measures. ¶ In New York, John Davison Rockefeller & son gave Chairman Seward Prosser's committee $1,000,000, providing 200,000 days of work for the jobless. With Edward Stephen Harkness's gift of $500,000, the committee's total passed $4,000,000. This sum was what made it possible for little knots...
...HOLYOKE STREET A. N. Davison...