Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sylvester Zeffarino Poli, 77, showman, sculptor, artist, founder of the chain of 18 Poli theatres in New England; of pneumonia; in Woodmont, Conn...
Died. John Robertson Dunlap, 80, retired founder of trade and scientific magazines (India Rubber World, Hardware, Engineering Magazine, Industrial Management, Industry Illustrated); in New York City...
...Said Founder Pepperdine, who reluctantly admits that he never reached high school: ''I believe the greatest contribution I can possibly make to the coming generation is to establish and endow an institution of higher learning where Christian living . . . is stressed...
Manhattan's Maurice Wertheim is a cultured, Jewish international banker, a philanthropist, a founder of the Theatre Guild, a man of social conscience. Two years ago, Banker Wertheim bought for his Civic Aid Foundation Oswald Garrison Villard's famed old pinko weekly, The Nation, which was editorially strong at 70 but financially feeble. Mr. Wertheim kept hands off The Nation's policy, which was shaped by Editor Freda Kirchwey and her colleagues, Joseph Wood Krutch and Max Lerner. Under the Foundation's patronage, The Nation treated itself to a new format, the cartoons of brilliant David...
...operations from an office in Los Angeles' Chamber of Commerce Building, Mr. Pepperdine has already lined up a president, Batsell Baxter of Tennessee's David Lipscomb College, a faculty recruited from Duke, University of Colorado, University of California, University of Oklahoma and several small southern schools. Pious Founder Pepperdine is a.pillar of the Church of Christ and his teachers were selected partially "for their devotion to Christian ideals and fundamental faith...