Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Christian Scientists have objected to in all but the authorized life of Mrs. Eddy (The Life of Mary Baker Eddy by Sibyl Wilbur) are alleged misstatements, "obnoxious," libelous, about the founder of Christian Science. Author Dakin's book says that Mary Baker Eddy plagiarized, took morphine, made no miraculous cures...
...post-office in Algonac, Mich., sits Chris Smith, chewing tobacco, swapping stories with his small-town cronies, whittling small models of boats. He is founder, and his son Jay is president of the largest mahogany motorboat company in the U. S.* Last week Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co. had cheering news for President Hoover and his industrial conferees: the company had just received the first order in the history of the industry for a solid trainload of motorboats. Fifteen carloads of Chris-Craft boats, with a factory list value of $115,000, were ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corp...
...Taschereau. The Hon. Louis Alexandré Taschereau is of a family superpotent in Quebec politics. His father, the Hon. Jean Thomas Taschereau, was a judge of the supreme court. Still more important was his uncle, the late great Elzear Alexandré Taschereau, dour-faced Archbishop of Quebec, first Canadian Cardinal, a founder of Laval University and for over 50 years an immense power in the life of the province. Premier Louis, cardinal's nephew, was destined from the first for a public career. Premier since 1920, he it was who framed the widely discussed, widely imitated (by other Canadian provinces) Quebec liquor...
Sued for Divorce. Nelson Morris, grandson & namesake of the founder of Morris & Co. (Chicago meatpackers), by Jeanne Aubert Morris, French legitimactress; at Versailles. Grounds: desertion. Since he flew around the world on the Graf Zeppelin he has not gone back to his wife...
...supported the Hoover ticket when his fellow Democrats refused to take his advice on Farm Relief. Died. Mrs. Mary J. Forrest Fontaine, 84, sister of the famed Confederate Generals Nathan Bedford, Jesse, and Jeffry Forrest; in Dallas, Tex. Died. Mrs. Margaret Stevens, 94, onetime Civil War hospital worker, a founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union,* at Pricetown, Ohio. She had six brothers (and six sisters) who said they never smoked or drank...