Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inaccurate to speak of Mr. Filene as the founder of the Credit Union Movement. Other Big Boston Businessmen were equally influential and unsparing of time and money in pushing the Credit Union cause ahead, particularly Felix Vorenberg and Pierre...
Most pretentious summer repertory will be presented by the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The Playhouse was founded by oldtime Actor Gilmor Brown 19 years ago. This year the Legislature bestowed on it the title of "The State Theatre of California" (but no subsidy). To signalize this honor, Founder Brown had for months been bustling about his office full of goldfish, canaries and tiny turtles, arranging an imposing sequence of seven plays, which began June 28, called "The Story of the Southwest." Five of the plays are old: Gerhart Hauptmann's Montezuma, Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, Franz Werfel...
...Founder and inspiration of the School of Expression is John Russell Young, 55, White House correspondent of the Washington Star, who looks so much like a storybook Senator that waiters always serve him first. He is a delight to President Roosevelt, who calls him "the Senator," and when in a tight fix at press conferences often finds an out with: "I think I'll deliver the Senator's No. 17." Young, good schoolmaster that he is, has a set of speeches for any occasion. No. 1 is "Our Flag," No. 8 is "America the Beautiful...
...product, called The Digest, will appear on July 17 as a weekly.* Its publisher, Albert Shaw Jr., son of Founder Dr. Shaw, announced: "We propose to publish an interpretative digest of everything in print that is important-and to do it every week." Dr. Shaw, now almost 80, who was away on vacation with his 26-year-old second wife, quickly returned to New York to take editorial charge of the new magazine. It will consist of three sections: a lead called "The Story of a Week," a centre filled with picture layouts, a back-of-the-book dedicated...
...circulation. The Digest will accept liquor advertising, something which Literary Digest never did. The firm of Funk & Wagnalls will continue in the book and dictionary publishing business under the management of Robert J. Cuddihy & sons, who own 60% of its stock. President Wilfred John Funk, son of Founder Dr. Funk and 40% stockholder, is reported to have an idea for a new magazine up his sleeve...