{"id":186,"date":"2008-04-30T19:11:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T19:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/feilerfaster\/2008\/04\/why-john-d-macarthur-hired-dwa.html"},"modified":"2008-04-30T19:11:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T19:11:49","slug":"why-john-d-macarthur-hired-dwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/feilerfaster\/2008\/04\/why-john-d-macarthur-hired-dwa.html","title":{"rendered":"Why John D. MacArthur Hired Dwarfs"},"content":{"rendered":"

This detail from my reading pile. All NPR lovers have heard of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. They also fund the famed “genius” grants every year. But a new book, Eccentric Billionaire<\/em>, focuses on their odd life. A recent piece in USA Today <\/a>includes this gem:<\/p>\n

His questionable ethics persisted as he and Catherine continued to acquire insurance companies and increase the MacArthur wealth.
\nBankers Life garnered positive press in the late 1940s for employing 650 older and handicapped workers. Of course, Kriplen writes, “With John \u2026 there was often more to any action than what appeared on the surface.”
\nThe twist to this story of diversity in hiring? “(The) basement ceilings were unusually low. \u2026 Bankers was still able to make this usable space, however, by hiring dwarfs as custodians.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This detail from my reading pile. All NPR lovers have heard of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. They also fund the famed “genius” grants every year. But a new book, Eccentric Billionaire, focuses on their odd life. A recent piece in USA Today includes this gem: His questionable ethics persisted as he…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy John D. 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