HUGE BENEFACTION.
RELIGION AND CHARITY. (Received I.SO p.m.) NEW YORK, April 9. George Ball, millionaire fruit jar manufacturer, has given his common stock holdings in the Mid-American Corporation, the holding company for the Van Sweringen Bros.' 2.000,000.000dollar railway "empire," to a religious and charitable and education foundation bearing his own and his wife* name, j This is expected to prove one of the '.greatest philanthropic donations in ' America.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 84, 10 April 1937, Page 9
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