Foreign News: Rockefeller Reward

Of the $167,000,000 John D. Rockefeller Jr. has given away, some $12,000,000 has been spent outside the U. S. To help Europeans, Chinese, Japanese and Indians stricken by war, famine, earthquake and leprosy Mr. Rockefeller gave about $3,000,000. The League of Nations' library at Geneva was built and stocked with 2,000,000 Rockefeller Jr. dollars. The Palestine Archeological Museum got $1,680,000. Half a million helped build the Shakespeare Memorial Foundation theatre at Stratford upon Avon. A million and a half went to Germany's Heidelberg and Göttingen Universities, London's University College, China's Lingnan University,...

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