Word: founder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institution called the Lincoln Scholarship Fund. This Fund started functioning last week in Manhattan. Its campaign: to raise $1,120,000 to lend as tuition fees to "anyone, regardless of age, race, color or creed who can furnish proof of need and sincerity of purpose." Its founder: Jacob J. Vandever, onetime (1922) President of the New York Rotary Club, and active philanthropist who likes to dress up as "Father Knickerbocker" each year for the outing of the Broadway Association, booster organization. Associated with Founder Vandever on a national advisory committee are such varied figures as the Hon. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo...
Fokker's 32-Passenger. Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, 39, Java-born Dutchman, founder of the U. S. and Holland Fokker industries, last week flew his first 32-passenger sleeper plane, at Teterboro, N. J., airport. As in Pullman cars, its seats can be rearranged for berths. Distinctive are the plane's two pairs of Wasp-motors fixed tandem, and its twin rudders which are adjustable to compensate for varying engine speeds. On his trial flight Mr. Fokker set its tail on a fence. A drizzle preceded another test flight. Spectators voiced doubt that the ship would try the run under...
Died. Dr. Hinko Hinkovitch. of Bel- grade, a founder of modern Jugoslavia, wartime propagandist with Pianist Ignaz Jan Paderewski against the Austro-Hungarian monarchy; at Zagreb...
...Americans are important. Paul Weeks Litchfield is chief of the U. S. lighter-than-air ship industry. He began with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1900 as a factory superintendent and built Goodyear's first tire with his own hands. Before the War he persuaded Goodyear's Founder-President Frank A. Seiberling to build spherical balloons for the U. S. air services. Before, during and since the War, Mr. Litchfield built sausage balloons and nonrigid dirigibles (blimps; for the Army and Navy. In 1924 he and Edward G. Wilmer, Mr. Seiberling's successor as Goodyear president, were at Friedrichshafen, inspecting...
...Bill of Rights. That telling criticism was ignored. Instead the Shanghai Committee concentrated on the fact that erudite Hu Shih had pointed out what seemed to him certain deficiencies and puerilities in the writings of the late famed Dr. Sun Yat sen, father of the Nationalist Government, sainted founder of the Party, who now reposes and is daily adored in a $5,000,000 marble tomb on the Purple Mountain (TIME, June...