Word: donner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard will be among five universities to receive generous grants from the Donner Foundation for endowing professorships in the sciences, Robert A. Maes, executive vice-president of the organization, announced yesterday...
...streams' and sogging levees to wrap up Northern California's wettest winter since 1890. In the majestic High Sierra the storms piled new snow into 20-ft. drifts, marooned 1,000 vacationers in ski lodges and Nevada state line gambling clubs, bogged transcontinental trucks straining across Donner Pass, treated 97 passengers aboard Southern Pacific's crack streamliner City of San Francisco to 30 hours of well-fed isolation in a snowbound snowshed near the pass...
Married. William Donner Roosevelt, 24, grandson of F.D.R., son of Elliott Roosevelt and his first wife; and Karyl Kyle, 23; he for the first time, she for the second; in Denver...
...directors are usually identifiable as being in the Du Pont faction-Donaldson Brown, Du Pont treasurer until he switched to G.M. in 1921, Lammot du Pont Copeland, Emile F. du Pont, Henry B. du Pont, Chairman Albert Bradley, Executive Vice President Frederic G. Donner. As in many another company, there have often been arguments between the financial men in Manhattan and the automakers in Detroit. But did Detroit knuckle under? Says one former General Motors boss, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson: "Du Pont never exerted any pressure...
...Ford Motor Co.'s Chairman Ernest R. Breech and President Henry Ford 11; General Motors Executive Vice Presidents Louis C. Goad and Frederic G. Donner...