Word: chautauqua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laid in the friendly hands of receivers last year (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934), famed old Chautauqua Institution was far from dead. Arthur Eugene Bestor, its president, made plans for the 1934 season, mapped out a money-raising campaign. This summer Chautauquans returned to their cottages, clubs and classes, their genteel recreations on the shores of Lake Chautauqua. But until last week they were not sure how long the Institution could carry on. Then, at the close of exercises celebrating the 60th anniversary of its founding, President Bestor announced: "This evening Chautauqua has received the largest aggregate gift in its history...
...campaign. Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison remembers the earliest days of the Institution. Her father. Lewis Miller, an Akron inventor, founded it with the help of Bishop John Heyl Vincent and there in 1885 Tom Edison paid court to Mina Miller. Later Inventor Edison be came honorary president of the Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle which for years scattered books for home reading over the marble-topped parlor tables of the land...
...much Mrs. Edison, who accumulated so many millions of dollars during her husband's life that he did not need to mention her in his will, contributed to the rehabilitation of Chautauqua the Institution did not reveal. Biggest single gift in the campaign was an anonymous one of $5,000. Chautauqua trustees contributed $20,000. The Bird & Tree Club, of which Mrs. Edison is president, chipped in with $3,358 while the Woman's Club gave $2,507. By far the greatest bloc of contributions toward lifting Chautauqua out of its gentle dumps came from those who have...
...suit had been filed by Royal Farms Dairy questioning the constitutionality of AAA, naming Secretary Wallace a defendant. Unable to tag him in the District of Columbia, the process server had seized the opportunity of cornering the sleeping Secretary while he was rolling through Maryland on his way to Chautauqua. N. Y. to deliver an address...
...Chautauqua Secretary Wallace said he did not recall much about the affair. "I was too sleepy and tired to really know," he said. "I was expecting some kind of nutty performance...