Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the killing of animals, the eating of flesh. Said he: "The dear chickens, how they scream and struggle in their effort to break away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken...
...early 1920s, Martin-Parry Corp. was a big U. S. manufacturer of commercial car bodies, for a few years grossed up to $5,000,000 annually. Its founder and president is tall, fretting, blue-eyed Frederick M. Small, son of the town's richest man, who went through Yale, returned to set up his own candy factory, and before he was 22 employed 200 men. Now he is 61, and since 1927 Martin-Parry Corp. has lost money every year. That year Henry Ford changed over from Model T to Model A, and Martin-Parry, with a big stock...
That done, dark, horsy Melville President Ward Melville, son of the late Founder Frank (who fathered the idea of selling cheap, standard shoes at a fixed price), upped the price of his Thom McAn men's shoes 15? to $3.30 a pair. He intimated he was doing so for the good of the industry...
...Curtis preferred stockholders had a thumping $12,339,273 coming to them in preferred dividends, and not even the sharp eyes of President Walter Deane Fuller could see the money in sight. Meanwhile the holders of the common, headed by the Bok family, descendants of the late great Curtis Founder Cyrus Herman Kotz-schmar Curtis (who own 836,626 shares), were becoming impatient...
Died. Frederick Abbot Stokes, 82, founder (1881) and president (since 1890) of Frederick A. Stokes Co. (book publishers); after long illness; in Manhattan. Some of the authors his firm introduced: James Branch Cabell, Louis Bromfield, Percival Christopher Wren...