Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hearing rumors that Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton was ill, would not be able to attend the America's Cup races in September, the New York World cabled the tea tycoon, received the same day a reply: "Many thanks. . . . Glad to say I am feeling in excellent health and am quite willing to take on Jack Dempsey. . . . Am looking forward with the greatest pleasure to another contest for the famous old mug and am confident the Shamrock will put up a good show...
...extended to his five sons, three of whom are now alive, to whom Mr. Crane left his business. Of these Richard Teller Crane Jr. is present president of the company. Of him as of his father it is said that he would rather visit a Crane Co. shop than attend a theatre. He never flies although his wife's brother-in-law is famed flying Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson. In his huge Lake Shore Drive home where last week he entertained Crane Co. employes there are no modern Crane Co. bathrooms. Richard Jr. has but one son Cornelius, recently...
...citizens, in recognition of the public citizenship of Bernarr Macfadden, apostle of health, in his spectacular influence in arousing the nation to the benefits of life in nature's great outdoors." Proudly reported the Sacramento Bee last week-"CLIFF WILL BECOME HEALTH MONUMENT. . . . About 200 New Yorkers will attend the rites...
...dollars dropped from the treasury of the Carnegie Corporation last week as the germ of a series of Carnegie Summer Art Centers, traveling lectureships, scholarships at universities throughout the country. Two-thirds of the germ landed at Harvard where instructors and graduate students from 20 U. S. colleges will attend lectures in the new Fogg Art Museum given by bushy-mustached George Harold Edgell, dean of the Harvard School of Architecture and dapper Paul Joseph Sachs, associate director of the Fogg Museum, brother of Banker Walter Edward (Goldman) Sachs...
Before accepting the position, Pennsylvania's 16th chief executive stipulated: 1) that he would serve without pay, 2) that he be allowed time to attend to his far-flung business interests, 3) that he must not be expected to become "involved in any routine work that would preclude my absence from the university for travel," 4) that he "would not feel justified in accepting any such executive position" unless he could count upon the assistance of Trustee Charles Day, Philadelphia engineer. All these provisos were accepted and Pennsylvanians felt they would get a sound business administration...