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Lester Crown (born June 7, 1925) is an American businessman and is the son of Chicago financier Henry Crown (died 1990), who created the Material Service Corporation with two brothers in 1919, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959. [1] Crown has been a perennial member of the Forbes 400 list since 1982.
In July 2014 Crown's chairman and largest shareholder James Packer launched a new initiative, the National Philanthropic Fund, to which his family foundation, and the Crown foundation would each contribute $100 million over ten years to support community projects in Australia. [40]
Crown (birth name: Henry Krinsky) was born in 1896 to Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. [3] [4] He was the third of seven children of a sweatshop worker, Arie Krinsky (1861–1937), and his wife Ida (1871–1956) . [5] His father changed the family name to Crown while Henry was a boy. [5] Crown did not attend school past the eighth grade. [5]
Leonora Knatchbull, 5, appears on the newest season of 'The Crown.' All about the little girl, Penny, and her relationship with her godmother, Princess Diana.
The Crown family, for whom the fountain is named, donated $10 million of the $17 million construction and design cost. [2] [32] The Goodman family, known for funding the Goodman Theatre, was also a large contributor; [3] the entire $17 million cost was provided by private donations. [30] The initial proposed cost for the fountain had been $15 ...
In The Crown, it was disastrous, and only after Princess Alice gives a compelling interview to journalist John Armstrong from The Guardian did the family’s image recover. But this didn’t ...
The school was founded in 1903 by minister and social work educator Graham Taylor as the Social Science Center for Practical Training in Philanthropic and Social Work. By 1920, through the efforts of founding mothers Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge, along with other notable trustees such as social worker Jane Addams and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the school merged ...
Lt. Gen Ma Chhoeun, adviser to the Cambodian prime minister, Hun Sen; Thompson and his sister, Hazel Joyce, honoring their mother Sadie. Following the opening of Crown's facility in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thompson and his wife Sally traveled to the region, where it was brought to their attention that the village of Proa Chum needed a school.