Word: creator
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Creator of American Commonwealths and its mainspring was Frank Theodore Hulswit. He was born in Grand Rapids 56 years ago, the son of a local merchant. His great-grandfather was Jan Hulswit (1766-1822), famed Dutch painter. In 1904 Frank Hulswit and Ralph Child formed the investment firm of Child-Hulswit & Co. which was dissolved in 1912. In 1910 Mr. Hulswit organized United Light & Railways Co., the nucleus of United Light & Power Co. In 1926 he was reputed to be worth $12,000,000. That year there was a great break in public utility stocks. United dropped from...
...Study of Lynching. Chairman of the commission which approached its problem dispassionately was George Fort Milton, publisher of the Chattanooga News, author of The Age of Hate. Other respect-commanding white members included Julian Harris, news director of the Atlanta Constitution and son of Uncle Remus' creator; President William Joseph McGlothlin of Furman University; Dr. Howard Washington Odum of the University of North Carolina. Noted Negroes on the Commission were President John Hope of Atlanta University, Principal Robert Russa Moton of Tuskegee Institute, President Benjamin...
Director von Sternberg, neither creator nor translator, had the insoluble problem of duplicating a masterpiece in a medium which it was not meant to fit. The string of hasty sequences with which the picture replaces the first volume of the novel fails to make Clyde Griffiths excitingly alive, "unless the spectator remembers the novel well enough to fill in the gaps. Titles, gloomily printed on a background of waves, interrupt the action more than they elucidate it. Phillips Holmes plays Clyde Griffiths in perfunctory fashion. He experiences every human emotion without varying his expression except by a toothy smile...
Behind the bar, clad in white jacket, was the creator of both: versatile, temperamental Artist Author Inventor John Vassos. The room he had created was more original than the spigots. The upper parts were of aluminum; the lower painted grey. Grey predominated, even in the hangings and the seat coverings of the modern furniture, although some of these were Chinese rose or black. Only other color: green spigot handles. One of the critics called the designs "irrational versatility...
...program is as follows: Mighty Lord from Christmas Oratorio of Bach Grant Us To Do With Zeal Bach Creator Alme Siderum Plain Song Jesu Dulcis Vittoria Miserere Allegri Glory and Worship Purcell Sacerdotes Domini Byrd Jerusalem Parry Credo Gretchaninoff Adoramus Te Palestrina Then Round About the Starry Throne Handel