Word: founder
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...typhoon which howled over Luzon two days before was still making bad weather. But the chief reason that comparatively few Filipinos went to the polls last week to elect the first President of their Commonwealth was that the result seemed already in the bag. For Bishop Gregorio Aglipay, leader-founder of the Independent Catholic Church of the Philippines, and for General Emilio Aguinaldo, who has always felt the U. S. double-crossed him after he helped wrest the islands from Spain in 1898. a combination of Communists. Sakdalistas and miscellaneous advocates of immediate independence cast less than 250.000 votes. Twice...
...Wells of the future who will ring the antarctic with power-producing windmills; but the winds of the Antarctic have to be felt to be believed, and nothing is quite impossible to physicists and engineers," declared Professor Frank Debenham of Cambridge, president of the geography section, South Polar traveler, founder of the Polar Research Institute dedicated last year to the late heroic Robert Falcon Scott (TIME...
Since the organization of the Department of Hygiene by Dr. Roger I. Lee, emphasis has been placed upon the fact that all professional relations between doctors and students are regarded as confidential. This was the wish of Dr. Henry K. Oliver, the founder of the Department, and is in line with usual professional custom. The present staff will carry on this important tradition...
Divorced. Edward F. Hutton, board chairman of General Foods Corp.(see p. 54); by Marjorie Post Close Hutton, daughter of General Foods' late founder Charles William Post (Postum, Post Toasties); in Nassau...
...impressed with the future of technology was Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, richest man in Pennsylvania, that in 1866 he founded Lehigh University. Spread over a hillside above smoky Bethlehem, Lehigh has always made a specialty of engineering. Founder Packer would have beamed last week upon the election as Lehigh's president of Clement Clarence Williams, 53, dean of the College of Engineering at University of Iowa, once an active civil engineer. Succeeding Dr. Charles Russ Richards, President-elect Williams will take office October...