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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Initiation fee was $2, annual dues $2. More recently they have published the R. F. A. News, an eight-page quarterly which runs gossip on Rockefellers; family genealogy and such information as: "This name [Rockefeller] was chosen after the name of their chateau [at Creyssels, France], which was called Roca-folio. . . . The greater part . . . of the rocks of Creyssels . . . were found to be of petrified leaves." Many issues of the News carry articles about the Rockefeller Foundation, John Davison's educational stimulant. To the Family Association's educational fund John Davison has given nothing but his dues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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