Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though never noted for artistic sensibilities, President Coolidge was more than equal to a Founder's Day celebration and international painting exhibit at Carnegie Institute, the occasion for his Pittsburgh visit. Diplomats from France, Italy, Belgium, Rumania, Austria & Holland sat by and heard the history of Pittsburgh interpreted as a characteristic evolution of U. S. culture. Beginning 150 years ago with the pioneers who "could face facts," "grapple with realities" and subdue savages; touching briefly on George Washington, the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh's present bank clearances (9.198 billions) ; recounting with admiration the rise of an alien...
Bishop Noli is a graduate of Harvard and the founder in Boston of the Orthodox Albanian Church. Twice Albanian delegate to the League of Nations, he became President and Premier of Albania in 1924. In December of the same year (TIME, Jan. 5, 1925), he was ousted by Ahmed Zogu, and for the most part has since resided in Vienna, headquarters of European political exiles...
...shell of a murdered man who willed it for Booth's use. Another treasured relic is Mark Twain's check for $200,000, which he, experimenting as a publisher, paid Mrs. Julia Grant for memoirs of her husband, Ulysses S. Grant. Mark Twain was a founder of The Players, as was Augustin Daly. Another treasure of The Players is one of the finest theatrical libraries in the world. On the upper floor are Booth's old apartments just as he left them when he died there, a book of poems he was reading left open...
Reported Married. Mme. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb., 1912). "Father of the Chinese Revolution," founder of the Cantonese Government (1917); to Eugene Chen, onetime (1926-27) Foreign Minister of the Canton Nationalist Government. His first wife was of Negro descent...
...chairman of the directorate, the directors picked Daniel M. Goodrich, son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, founder of the corporation. A new vice president is James D. Tew, son of Dr. Goodrich's early associate when B. F. Goodrich Co. was called Goodrich & Tew. The company makes a greater variety of products from rubber than does any other concern...