Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons contributed last year. The bulk of the money for increasing the membership and influence has been contributed by wealthy members of the Pierre Samuel du Pont, Charles H. Sabin, Haley Fiske type. Until this year, the A. A. P. A. had only one office, in Baltimore. Its founder and guiding spirit, Captain William H. Stayton, was not dependent on the A. A. P. A. for his livelihood. Long before he began the A. A. P. A. he had, and has ever since, conducted a comfortable Baltimore shipping business...
...were of secondary interest beside the fact that Eleutherios Venizelos, "Grand Old Man of Crete," founder of the Greek Republic, and now Prime Minister, was also down with dengue fever, after having just won the Greek elections (TIME, Sept...
This little lyric was the popular expression of a fad which made famous its founder, Horace Fletcher, some 20 years ago. John D. Rockefeller took it up and provided a prose version of its message: "Don't gobble your food. 'Fletcherize,' or chew very slowly while you eat." For a time wealthy mothers counted their children's jaw beats at the table while ragged micks in the streets threatened to "Fletcherize" their little enemies. Gradually, the fad died because people were too lazy or too busy with other things to give the required 45 strokes...
...partners to No. 23 .Wall St., distributes gigantic checks as rewards for the year's work; 2) President Coolidge is kept busy answering appeals that he accept the chairmanship of the U. S. Steel Corp.; 3) Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, the onetime Miss Florence Pullman and daughter of Founder George M. Pullman, names all Pullman cars. For this labor, which reputedly occupies one half-hour each day, she earns either $100 a day or $30,000 a year...
...late Frances E. Willard planted two saplings, 70 years ago, and cried: "As these two horse chestnut trees grow and spread their branches, so the cause of temperance shall grow and spread throughout all the world." Miss Willard was the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The two trees in the yard of her home at Evanston, Ill. (now the headquarters of the W. C. T. U.) did grow, and now they are rotting. Last week, tree surgeons were busy anointing, repairing and healing the two trees...