Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intimate associations with John Lewis in the United Mine Workers (before C. I. O. was formed), with A. F. of L.'s Founder Sam Gompers, with many another Laborite and politico, impersonal Author Green tells almost nothing. The one anecdote in his 194 pages of record and analysis concerns John D. Rockefeller Jr. (see col. 2) and the ill-famed Ludlow "massacre" at a Rockefeller coal mine in Colorado, where eleven children and two women suffocated when National Guardsmen burned a strikers' camp. Mr. Green was dedicating a monument to the Ludlow martyrs of 1914 when a closed...
...workers from Chicago's Hull House, old-style Caribbean revolutionaries, retired burglars, Messianic booksellers, musicians from Wall Street, bearded atheists, Nicodemus-like lawyers, authors from Idaho, Junior Leaguers and Bryn Mawr graduates-all manner of odd types, irreconcilables, extravagants, visionaries and practical reformers who somehow were attracted by Founder Herbert Croly...
...years the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (founder: Benjamin Franklin) has gone solidly about its business of promoting science and industry. To many a famed scientist, engineer, inventor have gone its awards for work that advanced their professions. Like other kudos-conferring bodies, the Institute has never tried to bestow kudos-where-kudos-is-due among ordinary businessmen. This week the Institute stepped out, announced that from now on it would recognize the science of industrial management...
...Mumford is widely known as author of a series of books in architecture and city planning. In architectural criticism he has emphasized the identification of social and architectural values. He helped found the Regional Planning Association of America, was co-founder of the Housing Study Guild, and has served on various public boards in New York
Dynasty by Adoption. The history of Sweden in the 81 years since King Gustaf's birth is just about the best possible argument for constitutional monarchy. The Royal House, as lineage goes in Europe, is extremely young. His Majesty is only the great-grandson of its founder Jean Bernadotte, soldier of fortune, the son of a French petit bourgeois of Pau who played his own hand as a soldier-politician until Napoleon came along and outdid him. Alive to the main chance, Bernadotte was glad for a job as one of Napoleon's generals. His military exploits were...