Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line. . . . The Allied aircraft will often appear over your towns* and will bring you encouragement and assistance. . . . Do not submit!" A Czech Legion of 1,000 to fight with the Allies was being enlisted in London last week by Jan Masaryk, son of Czecho-Slovakia's late great Founder-President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Son Masaryk, unlike Dr. Benes, does not believe in the re-creation of Czecho-Slovakiain the old sense but as a federation of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia within a customs union. Asked why he was not carrying a gas mask in London, Son Masaryk cracked...
First to be enrolled in the District of Columbia's drive was 90-year-old Mrs. Peter Voorhees Degraw, only living founder, onetime aide to Clara Barton, organizer of the American Red Cross...
...Founder of W.C.T.U., whose centenary...
...Seminary of St. Mary's of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill., late last Sunday afternoon, two cassocked churchmen worked over the draft of a speech. One was Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Auxiliary bishop of Chicago, good friend of labor, good friend of youth, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization. The other was the godfather of the town, His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, great liberal of the Church, great builder and money-raiser for the sprawling archdiocese he had headed for nearly a quarter of a century. The speech over which they worked...
...habits, white starched caps tied under the chin. For sweet charity, to care for the aged poor who are their charges, the Little Sisters patiently make a nuisance of themselves by begging their way through shops, offices, the streets. They have been at it for 100 years, since their founder, Jeanne Jugan, joined with three friends to beg bread for some aged pensioners in the Breton village of St. Servan...