Word: founder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students interested in international relations and in furthering the cause of world peace will hail with enthusiasm the appearance of Donald B. Watt, founder and promoter of the Experiment in International Living, who will give an illustrated lecture in Phillips Brooks House next Monday evening...
...business. The first Mack truck took three years to build, cost $25,000, was a failure. By 1906 Mr. Mack was able to turn out a ten-ton model that worked, and the company has been making heavy-duty trucks ever since. After a series of pre-War mergers, Founder Mack retired with $1,000,000. Somewhat later he stepped off a street car in the company's home town of Allentown, Pa., was run down and killed by a Republic truck...
...after the Civil War and got into transportation by way of roller skates and bicycles. White abandoned automobiles for trucks in 1918. During the War, White made its all-time production record of 15,000 units, most of which went to France. Management was in the hands of the founder's sons until 1929, when Walter White was killed in an automobile accident. Coca-Cola's Robert W. Woodruff then stepped in but soon found commuting between Coca-Cola offices in Atlanta and White's offices in Cleveland too strenuous. After Ashton G. Bean was installed...
Died. Clarence Day, 61, writer and cartoonist; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. A few years out of Yale, Clarence Day, a grandson of the founder of the New York Sun, quit the Stock Exchange to join the Navy during the Spanish-American War. In the service he developed arthritis which made him a life-long cripple. Despite his paralyzed hands he began to write short sketches and verses, illustrated them with simple, sinister drawings of shapeless men and beasts. He published a number of books, (God and My Father, Scenes From the Mesozoic), became a best seller last summer with...
Died, Walter Leighton Clark, 76, painter, retired machinery manufacturer, a founder & president of Manhattan's Grand Central Art Galleries; after an illness of six months; in Stockbridge, Mass...