Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prison for his Socialism in 1931, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passes got him his first one-man show in the U. S. In July 1936, he finished his most ambitious mural, eleven panels containing 140 life-size figures, for Madrid's monument to the founder of Spanish Socialism, Pablo Iglesias. A few nights later Painter Quintanilla made himself a hero of the Republic by directing the attack which took the Montaña barracks in Madrid...
...night while the Revolution of 1848 was spreading over the German states, a great organizer, founder, artist, poet, and musician sat on a luxurious couch in great anxiety, not over the political situation, but over his financial affairs. He had piled one debt upon the other, and the climax had come when all his friends refused to advance him any more credit. "Men should be glad to lend to a genius like me," he thought, getting up and pacing the room...
Yagoda this week is to appear as one of the accused, last week testified as a witness against the accused Alexei Rykov, who succeeded Lenin as Premier of the Soviet Union (1924-30), and Nikolai Bukharin (probably the closest friend of the founder of the Soviet regime alive today) for years known as "Heir of Lenin."† Rykov and Bukharin said last week that they had nothing to do with the assassination at Leningrad in 1934 of the Dictator's "Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov. Yagoda, who had been standing with head down, snapped up at this to testify...
...Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven's good friend, Miss Emelie Augusta Louise Lind-af-Hageby, founder of the British Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society, wrote she had moved into a new office. The Baroness asked Kurwenal what he said to that. He yelped: "No flowers. My warmest greetings...
...Founder of that empire was Robert Scripps's father, the late Edward Wyllis Scripps; but the founder of the Scripps journalistic dynasty was Robert's great-great-grandfather, William Scripps, who was born in England 26 years before the American Revolution and died in Missouri in 1823. Of William's 19 children, two became publishers (and another sired three publishers, one of whom, John Locke Scripps, was one of the founders of the Chicago Tribune...