Word: founder
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...faculty, accepted a world's record brown bearskin for the university museum and got settled for the summer in the girls' infirmary while a house was being built for him. A week before, Alaskans had come from miles around to say goodbye to the university's founder and first president, leathery Charles E. Bunnell (TIME...
...your story on the founder of the J.C. Penney chain [TiME, June...
...model Scientist. She graduated from Johnson (Vt.) Normal School, taught Sunday school for the Mother Church and served as a full-time Science worker in New Hampshire. In 1898, having caught the eye of Mary Baker Eddy, she was asked to attend the last class ever taught by the founder of Christian Science...
Died. Fernando de los Rios Urruti, 69, Socialist cabinet member and a founder of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-39); after long illness; in Manhattan. Following the bloodless overthrow of King Alfonso XIII (April 1931), De los Rios, as Minister of Justice, started a reform program (to break up the aristocracy's large land holdings) and tried unsuccessfully to separate church and state. As Ambassador to the U.S. (1936-39), he fought for U.S. aid to Republican Spain, went into exile when Franco won the Civil...
Died. A. (for Amadeo) P. (for Peter) Giannini, 79, Italian immigrant's son who rose from fruit and vegetable peddler to become founder and chairman of the world's largest private bank, the Bank of America; after a heart attack; in San Mateo, Calif. (see BUSINESS...