Word: founder
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...carillon is the gift of Richard Teller Crane Jr., in memory of his father, founder of the potent Crane Co. (plumbing fixtures). Last week the bells were tested in London and found to be in perfect harmony with a 53-bell carillon which will soon ring from the Canadian houses of Parliament at Ottawa. The St. Chrysostom bells will be operated by electro-pneumatic machinery and can be played by telegraph from a distance of 3,000 miles. The keyboard has a touch as delicate as a piano...
Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Winifred S. Hyman, 24, onetime infant prodigy, one Louis H. Hyman of Manhattan. She used a typewriter at 3, wrote meditations on "Mother Goose" at 5. Her mother, Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, moral objector to "Mother Goose,"* is founder of the League for Fostering Genius...
...Godkin lectures are delivered under an endowment given to the University in 1903 by the friends of E. L. Godkin, founder and for many years editor of the "Nation", as a memorial of his long and distinguished service to the country of his adoption. The income of the fund is devoted to the delivery and publication of annual lectures upon "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen", or upon some part of that subject...
Died. Mrs. Juliette Low, 67, founder of the Girl Scouts of America, in Savannah, after a short illness. Mrs. Low was a close friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of England. In 1912 she brought the idea to this country. Membership now numbers some...
...Mountain Landis chewed up many cigars over testimony concerning two dismissed club-managers, Tyrus Cobb (Detroit) and Tristram Speaker (Cleveland), accused of "fixing" a game in 1919 (TIME, Jan. 3). Indications were that both would be exonerated. Meantime a head bigger than theirs was chopped off. Byron Bancroft Johnson, founder of the American League in 1900 and its president ever since, accused Commissioner Landis of wilfully and improperly publishing the Cobb and Speaker evidence after receiving it from the American League. The latter had investigated the cases quietly and dismissed the two men without publicity, to spare them and commercial...