Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking from the portico of white-pillared Monticello on a hilltop five miles out of Charlottesville, he did not even recall that Thomas Jefferson had been the Founder of the Democratic Party, praised him instead as the champion of freedom. Only the loftiest of allusions to the political present were there in the President's cry of the Founding Fathers: ''Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought to be. They used new means and new models to build new structures." Nor could any but the rudest...
...months of sober head-scratching, the directors of Paramount Pictures last week decided on a successor to President John Otterson, who got his walking papers at the last stockholders meeting (TIME, June 29). Their choice was Barney Bala ban, one of the new directors elected last month and co-founder of Chicago's chain of Balaban & Katz theatres...
...changing the labor structure of the nation's heaviest of heavy industries, John Llewellyn Lewis in the past few weeks had already moved on to larger operations. The United Mine Workers' president, the leader of the largest U. S. labor union, the founder and chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, John Lewis was rapidly becoming a potent force in national as well as industrial affairs. Reporters in the Senate Press Gallery knew it fortnight ago when they saw the baleful glare Miner Lewis cast down on West Virginia's snaggle-toothed Rush Holt as that daring...
...school, Kenyon College at tiny Gambier, Ohio was built by one of the many Eastern clergymen who swarmed into the Western territories after the War of 1812. Since then Kenyon has passed two stiff tests. First was to face down the animosity of its Ohio neighbors who, learning that Founder-Bishop Philander Chase had raised his first $30,000 from the British nobility, firmly believed that Kenyon was a British fort. That notion Kenyon scouted by graduating many a stanch U. S. citizen, including two members of the Lincoln Cabinet, Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton and Secretary...
...Premier on a Social Credit platform recently (1 made the platform effective and began paying a $25-a-month dividend to every citizen, 2 defaulted payment on two bond issues, 3 refused to accept financial aid from the Dominion Treasury, 4 impeached its Premier, 5 prevailed upon the founder of Social Credit to assist in making the plan effective...