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Rockefeller

turned his attention to the philanthropic en-
terprises which he had been developing. He
founded the University of Chicago in 1890.
Many educational institutions have benefited
by his gifts through the General Education
Board, which he founded in 1903. Besides
this, many institutions have received contri-
butions from his personal funds. He founded
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search in 1901, the Rockefeller Foundation in
1913, and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Memorial in 1918 (consolidated with the
Rockefeller Foundation in 1929). Altogether
he contributed more than $500,000,000 to
educational and public welfare organizations,
of which nearly four-fifths went to the four
charitable corporations which he created.

Rockefeller, John Davison, Jr. (1874-
), American capitalist was born in Cleve-
land, 0. He became associated with his fa-
ther, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., in various en-
terprises. He became a director of the Colora-
do Fuel and Iron Company, and as such was
an important witness before the Federal In-
dustrial Relations Commissions following the
Colorado Miners' Strike, beginning in 1913.
He organized tie Bureau of Social Hygiene,
and is a member of the Rockefeller Founda-
tion, General Education Board and Rocke-
feller Institute for Medical Research. He
aided the Byrd expeditions to the North and
South Poles. He is the author of The Per-
sonal Relation in Industry (1917).

Rockefeller, Nelson A., (1909), son of
John D, Rockefeller, Jr. In 1942 he became
U. S. Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.
He is president of Rockefeller Center.

After stating, in 1945, that Argentina was
still the 'black sheep* of the Western hem-
isphere he resigned as Asst. Secy, of State
in charge of Latin American affairs.

Rockefeller, William (1841-1922),
American capitalist, brother of John D.
Rockefeller, Sr., was born in Richford, Tioga
co., N. Y. He was president of the Standard Oil
Company of New York (1865-1911), and
vice-president of the Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey (1865-1911) and was con-
nected with numerous business enterprises.

Rockefeller Center, a district in New
York City, developed by John D. Rockefeller
Jr., as a musical and radio center. It com-
prises three large city blocks, from 48th to
Sist Streets, between Fifth and Sixth Ave-
nues. The Radio City section of the de-
velopment is the 7o-story RCA building, the
RKO office bunding, the Radio City

Music Hall and the Center Theater. The
Fifth Avenue approach is by way of a Prom-
enade, 60 ft. wide and 200 ft. long, between
49th and soth Streets. This thoroughfare
slopes down to a sunken plaza, with a sculp-
tural fountain by Paul Manship. The RCA
Building is the world's largest office building
in floor space. La Maison Franchise, a 7-story
office building, has a frontage of 70 ft. on
Fifth Avenue and on Rockefeller Plaza. The
British Empire Building is tenanted by Brit-
ish and Anglo-American shops. The Palazzo
d'ltalia has 6 stories. The Radio City Mu-
sic Hall is the world's largest theater, and
has one of the largest pipe organs ever built

Rockefeller Foundation, a corporation
proposed by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., in
1910, chartered by the New York State leg-
islature in 1913, and endorsed by Mr. Rocke-
feller, for the object of 'promoting the well-
being of mankind throughout the world/ was
consolidated with the Laura Spelman Rocke-
feller Memorial in 1929 (net capital about
$168,000,000). The work of the Foundation
deals primarily with the advancement of
knowledge and is administered under a presi-
dent through the International Health Divi-
sion and four directors, one each for the
Natural Sciences, Medical Sciences, Social
Sciences, and the Humanities. After pro-
viding for buildings and endowments of
medical schools, the department of Medical
Sciences shifted its support to specific re-
search programs and specialized in psychia-
tric problems. The department of Natural
Sciences centered its interest on research in
paleontology, meteorology, astronomy, phys-
ics, chemistry, and biology. The department
of Humanities aided foreign scholars, groups
and institutions in humanistic research. For
public health research money distribution
was practically world-wide and was con-
tributed for the study of yellow fever, ma-
laria, tuberculosis, hookworm disease, com-
mon colds, undulant fever, yaws, schistoso-
miasis and typhoid fever. Funds were pro-
vided for the support of international fellow-
ships in public health and for the aid of the
central health administration of governments
and counties. Appropriations in 1938 amount-
ed to about $17,000,000.

Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search, an institution founded by John D.
Rockefeller, Sr., in 1901, which announced as
its purpose 'the investigation of such prob-
lems in medicine and hygiene as nave a prac-
tical bearing on the prevention and cure of