Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lawful battle in a Cincinnati courtroom with Charles Evans Hughes, fair, bushy of beard, fond of animals, deliberate in speech. Mr. Hughes was attorney for Mrs. Josephine Scripps, of Miramar, Calif., who was suing for at least $6,000,000 of the estate of the late E. W. Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers. Mr. Baker was representing the defendant, Robert Paine Scripps, trustee of the estate. In summing up his argument, Mr. Baker quoted at length from King Lear. Mr. Hughes rebutted that he would not dally with the "law reports of that learned man, William...
Student Nevin fulfilled Pennsylvania University's law school requirements at 18. For ten dreadful, discouraging years he "practiced," until accident confronted him with John Wanamaker, the Founder.*Lawyer Nevin was better at real estate than the Founder himself; when the owner died, Lawyer Nevin was made Vice President of everything, all around. Directorships followed, automatically. Wilful-faced, 200 pound, 6 ft. 2 in., firm chinned, wideshouldered Attorney Nevin became master last week of Wanamaker's interests in the U. S. and the world, to wit: Wanamaker's stores in Philadelphia, New York, Paris, Tokyo; A. T. Stewart...
...Literary designation, in Wanamaker advertising, of John Wanamaker, founder of the department stores. *In his 25-page will, Republican Rodman Wanamaker forgot to mention his Philadelphia Record, Democratic party organ...
Married. Frederick R. Johnson, 19, Dartmouth college sophomore, son of the late Caleb E. Johnson, founder of the Palmolive Soap Co., of Evanston, Ill.; to Miss Lydia Davies, 19, of Louisville, Ky.; secretly a month ago at the Dartmouth college winter carnival...
Died. Max Pine, 62, labor leader, relief worker, a founder of the Forward, famed Jewish daily; of pneumonia; in Maywood...