MEN OF MILLIONS.
MEEKNESS AND MODESTY. 13 AN INSCRUTABLE SILENCE. (Times Air Mail Service.) LONDON, June 27. Yesterday, I tried to life the veil of anonymity that shields the donor of £250,000 presented to Earl Baldwin last December for “ the endowment of any object best calculated to strengthen still further the ties that bind together the Dominions and the United Kingdom,” writes Reynolds’ Secret Serviceman. The result was entertaining. Seven wealthy men were questioned, and not one of them denied it! In each case—a knowing smile, a general 44 I-could-say-something-but-I-won’t ” attitude, and a general hint of 44 secrecy must he respected.” One of the few plutocrats left among our peerage went so far as to point out that the interest he had always taken in India 44 was, I believe, widely known,” and to add, meaningly, that India was to be included in the scheme.
That is as near as I got to a plain answer. But ... no one who compiles a list of men who have been lavish with public gifts in the last two years would leave out the name of Lord Nuffield 1
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20255, 26 July 1937, Page 9
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186MEN OF MILLIONS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20255, 26 July 1937, Page 9
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