Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come swirling into his candy Utopia. Thirty-four years ago there was nothing but a cornfield where he stood. Now the sickish-sweet smell of the world's biggest chocolate factory lay heavy on the surrounding countryside. Ever since the factory had begun to make big money, abstemious Founder Hershey had poured it out to make his people happy. Besides giving most of his corporation's common stock to endow a great orphan's school, he has built a neat, clean, grassy model town, provided it with model schools, stores, theatres, sporting grounds, community centre...
...present charm." Back of the battle over Washington's Tidal Basin stands the amiable, aging figure of John Joseph Boylan. Tammanyite, for 15 years the U. S. Representative of New York's 15th Congressional District. Congressman Boylan's lifelong hero has been Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, founder, among other things, of the Democratic Party...
Died. George Campbell Smith Jr., 45, president of Street &Smith Publications, Inc. (Love Story, Western Story, et al.), grandson of Street &Smith's Founder Francis S. Smith; after brief illness; in Manhattan...
...March 29) was doing well. In an approaching municipal election Mr. Voliva believed his adherents would be victorious, thus restoring him to complete power over Zion. Then, one morning, Overseer Voliva directed his chauffeur to drive him past Shiloh Tabernacle, the rambling frame structure built by Zion's Founder John Alexander Dowie, in which the Passion Play was being performed every Sunday. To his horror, black smoke "in five different and widely separated places" was billowing out of the Tabernacle and Overseer Voliva later said he heard 15 explosions. Zion's head theocrat frantically summoned firemen...
...controlled note of bitterness pervades his farewell as he came away from the drydock where the Joseph Conrad lay alongside the swanky yachts which she would presently resemble when refitted by her new owner, 24-year-old G. Huntington Hartford, grandson of the A. & P. stores founder...