Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

The directors of the major foundations have been
particularly active in wartime positions, even though they
seem to have little experience in charitable endeavours.
Beardsley Ruml was a trustee of Russell Sage
Foundation from 1928-33. For many years the most
prominent figure on Sage's board was Frederic A.
Delano, who was horn in Hong Kong, where his father,
Captain Warren Delano, was engaged in the opium
trade. An uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Delano was an
original member of the Federal Reserve Board of
Governors in 1914, and was later named by his nephew
as Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
He was an original incorporator of Brookings Institution,
Carnegie Institution, and Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, director of the Smithsonian
Museum, Commission for Relief in Belgium, and Belgian
American Educational Foundation set up by Herbert
Hoover in World War I, chmn Natl Planning Board 1934-
43.
Delano's wife's sister married Ed Burling, who founded
the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling, whose
partners later included Dean Acheson and Donald Hiss,
brother of Alger. Frederic A. Delano married Mathilda
Peasley of Chicago; Edward Burling married her sister
Louise. They were the daughters of a railroad tycoon,
James C. Peasley of the Burlington Railroad, also
president of the National State Bank. Judge J. Harry
Covington and Edward Burling founded the law firm of
Covington and Burling in Washington in 1919.