Word: dinkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware. Their designers were (and still are) the best in the country: Bruce Rogers, Updike, Goudy. A little heard-of French painter named Toulouse-Lautrec made an advertising poster for them. The Chap-Book started the vogue of Little Magazines (then called Dinkey Magazines), germinated the Chicago literary "renaissance of a few years hence. Meanwhile in Manhattan, old-line publishers were glooming because there were no new writers to replace the big names rapidly dying off: Ruskin, Tennyson, Carlyle, Emerson, etc. Kimball bought Stone's share in 1896, headed for Manhattan, made...
Died. Emma Eurana Dinkey (Mrs. Charles M.) Schwab, 79, wife of Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s longtime board chair man; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the first steel works chemist in the U. S., Mrs. Schwab helped her husband in experiments in a private laboratory during the first years of their married life. Later she devoted her time to extensive, unostentatious philanthropy...
Died. Alva Clymer Dinkey, 65, one-time president (1903-15) of Carnegie Steel Co., president of the Midvale Co.; after three months illness; at Wynnewood, Pa. Brother-in-law of Charles Michael Schwab who married Emma Eurana. one of his three surviving sisters, he started as a water boy in the Carnegie-owned Edgar Thomson Steel Works...