Word: founder
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Died. Hugh Graham Baron Atholstan, 89, founder and for 69 years proprietor of the Montreal Star; after long illness; in Montreal...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt prepared to enroll with Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service as Founder No. 1 of his National Foundation to Combat Infantile Paralysis (enlistment fee: $1), he found he had no money, was obliged to borrow from Press Secretary Stephen Early...
Thomas Cole, founder of the "Hudson River School" of landscape artists. A contemporary of James Fenimore Cooper, Cole painted the first grandiose pictures of the U. S. wilderness...
...matching German precision in making optical instruments. Today, with some 4,000 workers and a select inner circle of German-trained craftsmen, the Rochester lensmakers turn out lenses ground accurate to a millionth of an inch, at a profit of about a million dollars a year. Since 1926 when Founder J. J. Bausch died, the company has been headed by Son Edward, chairman of the board, now 83 and still active enough to enjoy bowling. He and numerous relatives have not only run Bausch & Lomb but owned all 40,000 shares of its common stock which was split into...
...oysters as an appetizer for a 15-course dinner, was during his lifetime as famed as a salesman as he was as a gastrophile. If his stomach was gargantuan, his entertainment expenses and the sales that followed were epic. The Brady fable got its pith from Charles A. Moore, founder of Manning, Maxwell & Moore, who took Brady on as a cub salesman in 1879 when the company was only a jobber for railroad supplies, sent Diamond Jim out on the road with instructions to spend all the money necessary to make customers like him. Diamond Jim stuck to this tenet...