TEN MILLIONS
VAST FORTUNE FOR EGYPT ROCKEFELLER MUNIFICENCE TO MAINTAIN CAIRO MUSEUM CAIRO, Feb. 14. What is believed to be a record donation for humanistic science research has been offered by John Rockefeller, jun., to King Fuad and the people of Egypt. It consists of ten million dollars for building and maintaining the Cairo Museum, which will probably be the finest in the world, and establishing an Archaeological Institute in connection therewith. Professor J. IT. Breasted, a distinguished American Orientalist, who formally presented the offer to King Fuad, declared in an interview thai the donor seeks thereby to express the friendship of America, the newest land in the West, for Egypt, the oldest land in the East. A GREAT MUSEUM FINALITY NOT REACHED COSTING TEN MILLIONS JOHN ROCKEFELLER’S DENIAL Received Feb. 15, 8.15 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 14. John Rockefeller, junr., denies that he made any 10,^00.U00 dollar gift to King Fuad and the Egyptian people for the establishment of a great museum and achaelogical institution, as attributed to him in Cairo despatches. He said that for some time negotiations were under way for such a project, but a decision had not been reached yet.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19513, 16 February 1926, Page 8
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195TEN MILLIONS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19513, 16 February 1926, Page 8
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