Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusive are these figures to "an American" that, last week, potent H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S. founder-owner of London's first and greatest "department store," promptly ordered extra advertising space in leading English dailies, commenced to "boom" and "sell" the tunnel idea...
Propagandist Dittemore in 1919 quarreled with the trustees and other directors of the Boston Christian Science Church and was ousted. He went to London where he allied himself with Mrs. Annie C. Bill, self-styled "successor" to Mrs. Eddy and founder of a slightly insurgent Christian Science church known as the Parent Church. As everyone knows, the Boston church is always referred to as the Mother Church...
Died. Jackson Johnson, 69, founder and chairman of the board of International Shoe Co. (world's biggest manufacturer of shoes); of angina pectoris; at Daytona Beach, Fla. Shoemaker Johnson, at 18, opened his first store at Holly Springs, Miss., organized shoe businesses in Memphis, Tenn., and St. Louis, which he made his home. Said he: "I moved shoes West...
Today only one of the Three Young Presidents is continuing his post. He is President Glenn Frank of Wisconsin, one-time editor of the Century magazine and, with Alexander Meiklejohn, founder of Wisconsin's famed Experimental College. Of the others, President Max Mason of the University of Chicago resigned last May* and President Clarence Cook Little of the University of Michigan resigned last week...
Died. Walter C. Teter, 66, founder of the community & airport at Teterboro, N. J.; after a short illness; in Manhattan...