The Julius Rosenwald fund reported here that it had spent $16,620,000 “for the well-being of mankind” since it was established in 1917. There now remains a balance of about $4,000,000, which Mr. Rosenwald, the Jewish philanthropist, provided must be expended within twenty-five years after his death, or by 1957.
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