Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Fisher Baker, 59, son, heir, namesake and successor of the late founder-chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank; of peritonitis; in Honolulu Harbor aboard his 272-ft. yacht Viking. Conscientious, conservative, he never made a speech or gave an interview, he lived in the lengthening shadow of his father's name. He had been First National's chairman since his father's death six years ago at 91, but active direction was in the hands of men like Jackson Reynolds and Leon Fraser. In poor health for the past three years, Mr. Baker...
Died. Dr. Alfred Adler, 67, Viennese psychologist, founder of the school of "individual psychology," originator of the phrase "inferiority complex," longtime professional enemy of Dr. Sigmund Freud, his old teacher; after collapsing in ihe street; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...most prosperous newspapers in the land is the solid old Milwaukee Journal which made money even during Depression. At her death last February, the 55% of Journal stock Founder Lucius William Nieman left in trust to his widow and his niece, Faye McBeath, was to be sold, not necessarily to the highest bidder, but to the persons "most likely to carry on the Journal tradition...
...control the world-wide Salvation Army flared up again last week for perhaps the last time. Tall, ruddy Henry Mapp came within the orbit of the Booth dynasty in India 50 years ago, when he joined the Army under Commissioner Edward Booth-Tucker, son-in-law of Founder William Booth. Mapp moved upward alone, to become the Army's Chief-of-Staff, administrator of some 26,000 officers and candidate for its Generalship when General Edward John Higgins made ready to retire. But formidable Evangeline won that post (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934) Implacably last week she ousted Commissioner Mapp...
...Even John L. McKinney, 94, one of the first oil pioneers of Titusville and a founder of American Radiator Co., died last week two days before Rockefeller...