Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy celebrated an "Italo-Spanish solidarity day" to whip up enthusiasm for the Spanish Rightist cause. Presence of Italian "volunteers'" with scarred faces, empty sleeves, lost legs, lucidly illustrated Italy's participation in the war. Representing Generalissimo Franco was one-eyed, one-armed General Jose Millan Astray, founder 3 of Spain's Foreign Legion...
...that had mail subsidies lost them, got nothing in return. For those operating between Atlantic and Pacific ports, Panama Canal tolls ate heartily into whatever profit remained. For such companies the choice has been: 1) to transfer ships to foreign trade to be eligible for subsidies, or 2) to founder...
Occasion for Mr. Green's pleasure was the failure of C. I. O. co-Founder & Secretary Charles P. Howard to be re-elected president of the potent International Typographical Union. The printers by a 3-2 vote replaced C. I. O. man Howard by their Vice President Claude M. Baker, of San Francisco. Their act as labor men knew was, however, more a repudiation of Mr. Howard than of C. I. O. For in his twelve years as head of I. T. U., his two-and-a-half years of personal affiliation with C. I. O., aggressive President Howard...
...Burchell Grocery, Washington, D. C., was founded in 1856. Mrs. Lincoln bought groceries there, and the store has been sending orders 'round to the White House ever since. The present proprietress is Mrs. Norvall Burchell, widow of the founder's son. She is proud of the store's historical role, rather sensitive, however, about current profits & losses. For Burchell's closes this week-due, Mrs. Burchell says, to chain store competition, not loss of Presidential patronage...
...most famed religious conversions since that of St. Paul, and probably the best-documented in modern times, was that of John Wesley, founder of Methodism. To a recent Roman Catholic student of Wesley, Rev. Maximin Piette, this conversion was "a gust of feeling so unimportant that Wesley might well have forgotten all about it had he not recorded it at the lime." Nevertheless, Wesley did record it, in words which Methodists have treasured to this...