Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franco for Fascism-Had not Benito Mussolini, the Founder of Fascism, thus brought everyone up to date on what Fascism is in 1937-namely not the handy prop for Capitalism it was once pictured, but a dynamic social force-the significance of where Spain's leaders stood last week would have been much less clear. They were suddenly and squarely asked where they stood by Roy Wilson Howard, one of the most usefully inquisitive executives journalism has yet produced...
...contemporaries agreed that Pushkin was great, but posterity has made it nearly unanimous. Called "the founder of Russian literature," compared to Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Pushkin in his own day seemed more Byronic than anything else. So avidly did he pursue his rakehell career that it seems a miracle he had any energy left for writing, that he lasted as long as he did (38 years). Pushkin was born into the old nobility, but he also had black blood: his maternal great-great-grand father was an Abyssinian ras. Pushkin's parents were social, impecunious, improvident. They paid...
...Hotel & Restaurant Employes International Alliance ("waiters' union"); two of a local of A. F. of L.'s Delicatessen & Restaurant Countermen & Employes ("cafeteria workers") Union. Nine others had been named in the indictment. Three of them were fugitives. Four more were Dutch Schultz, reputed founder of the restaurant racket, one of his henchmen and two union leaders-all dead by violence. An eighth was the late president of the Cafeteria Workers local, dead by his own hand last December while awaiting trial. The ninth, reputed collector and No. 2 man of the racket, pleaded guilty on the first...
...done, perhaps even of Reform to be unReformed so that Jews may keep together, the Union last week chose a man of calibre to be its president: Robert Phillips Goldman, 46-year-old Cincinnati lawyer. Although he is a devout worshipper at the Cincinnati Temple named for the founder of U. S. Reform, Isaac Mayer Wise, Lawyer Goldman has devoted his career to Reform of another kind. An authority on proportional representation, he did much backstage work in the Charter movement which ousted Cincinnati's machine government in 1925, helped draft the city charter which was subsequently adopted. When...
Married. Diana Dollar, daughter of President Robert Stanley Dollar of Dollar Steamship Lines, granddaughter of Dollar Lines' founder Captain Robert Dollar; and Joseph...