Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successor to Francis Harmon, the Y. M. C. A. turned to China, picked a husky, genial Floridian named Eugene Barnett, founder of the Hangchow "Y" and for the past eight years in charge of all U. S. "Y" work in that unhappy nation...
...waxed rich on many & many a small account, some big ones like those of Ford Motor Co. and American Telephone & Telegraph. By 1928 the firm had grown so large that it built its own 13-story building on Philadelphia's West Washington Square, placing in the cornerstone the founder's personal Bible and a copy of the Saturday Evening Post autographed by Editor George Horace Lorimer...
Last week the pleasant opportunity of being helpful fell to the banking house of Calvin Bullock. The aging founder, who got his start in Denver and then branched east to Manhattan, did not attend the SEC hearing, sending instead his husky, handsome son, Hugh Bullock. A few years out of Williams (Class of 1921), Son Hugh opened what has since grown into the head Bullock office in Manhattan. He married a cousin once removed of Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot, an attractive, honey-haired socialite who helped found the Academy of American Poets, which gives balls and raises money...
Profitable though it has been, the camera and survey division has not been able to offset the aircraft losses. Founder Fairchild built his first plane because he could not find one that suited him for photographic work, starting commercial production in 1926. During Depression engine and aircraft sales shrank to a low of $72,000 (in 1931). Since then Fairchild has entered the transport field, has developed a high-speed amphibian popular with Pan American Airways, is developing for the Navy an in-line air-cooled motor. Sales recovered to $511,000 last year, and a comfortable backlog of orders...
...proposed split is not the first but the second time that Founder Fairchild has made little corporations out of big ones. The tall, husky, 40-year-old inventor took his enterprises into Aviation Corp. when that big holding company was formed in 1929. At the end of two years Mr. Fairchild had had enough of the boomtime merger, arranged for his company to regain its independence. Since then he has collected for Fairchild a notable roster of executive and engineering talent, including such names as Col. John H. Jouett, famed "father of the Chinese air force"; James S. Ogsbury...