Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Socialistische Beweging. Glib Dutch youths explain that their N. S. B. combines the best features of Italian Fascism and German Naziism with the drawbacks of neither and serviceable Dutch additions. Queen Wilhelmina, not to be hornswoggled, fired from his fine soft government job some years ago the founder of the movement, Dike-Builder A. A. Mussert, who had been Hydraulic Engineer of Utrecht Province...
...When Founder Thompson had pondered his idea and found it good, he invited botanists all over the U. S. to submit their own ideas of how such an institute should be run and what it should try to do. Dr Crocker, then at the University of Chicago, submitted the plans that looked best to Col. Thompson, was hired forthwith, spent three years studying research methods at home and abroad before opening the Institute. His staff likes him because he does not isolate projects but encourages entomologist, botanist, physical chemist and mathematician to get their heads together. He gives some...
Sonnemannstrasse was named long years ago for the Jewish founder of the Frankfurter Zeitung. Last week General Göring was about to marry Actress Emmy Sonnemann. Whatever she is, she does not look Jewish. During the War she clerked in a Hamburg candy shop. Göring then was a national hero, one of Imperial Germany's greatest fighting aces, finally Commander of the late, great Baron Manfred von Richthofen's daredevil escadrille. Three years ago Emmy was introduced to Hermann by Adolf...
Robert Russa Moton has built up Tuskegee's endowment from $2,000,000 to $10,000,000, its enrollment to 1,200. He has added an academic course of sorts. But Tuskegee is still what its founder made it. "I have managed," Dr. Moton tells friends, "to wobble around in Mr. Washington's shoes." Impartial Negroes deny that Dr. Moton has ever wobbled, agree that the imprint of the founder's shoes is stamped firmly on Tuskegee's 132 acre campus, its cornfields, cattle range, poultry yards, machine shops...
...bonus plan has since been modified, and today Mr. Grace is paid a straight salary of $180,000 per year. But old Chairman Charles Michael Schwab now gets his $250,000, good years or bad, and when the Bethlehem stockholders met in Newark, N. J. last week, the aging founder, present but not presiding, bore the brunt of the complaints. Loyally defending his chief from the chair, President Grace called Mr. Schwab a "real asset to the corporation...