Word: founder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shirt industry is showing signs of wear around the edges, now that the wartime shortage is over, and Shirtman Phillips could not have picked a better time for something new. He is an old hand at new selling tricks. A grandson of Founder Moses Phillips, he stepped into Phillips-Jones's presidency in 1939 at a time when the company had just turned in a loss of $937,186. Its stock, which had once sold at 98¼, had sunk to 2¾. At 36, Phillips knew plenty about the shirt business; for 15 years he had clerked...
Died. William Hulme Lever, second Viscount Leverhulme, 61: of an internal hemorrhage; in Minneapolis (while on a world tour). He was governing director (and son of the founder) of Britain's sprawling mercantile empire of Lever Bros. & Unilever Ltd. and its Dutch twin, Lever Bros. & Unilever N.V. (337 factories, 516 companies in 17 nation. with assets totaling $1.1 billion), among the world's leading* manufacturers of soap (Rinso, Lux, Lifebuoy), edible oils (Spry) and margarines...
...worries about his soloists (one, Contralto Lilian Knowles, is his wife) or about the great choir before him. Some of the choristers didn't even need scores. Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 82, was a charter member who had been singing in the choir ever since its founder, J. Fred Wolle, came home to Bethlehem 50 years ago from his studies in Munich, determined to dedicate himself and Bethlehem to Bach. Two others had been singing for 47 years, and more than 40 had been in the choir for at least 25 years. Most of them came from Bethlehem...
...years ago, with the first complete .U.S. performance of the St. John's Passion to its credit, Bethlehem's first Choral Union had broken up when it came to tackling the B Minor, which is technically difficult and emotionally demanding throughout its whole three-hour length. Said Founder Wolle: "They looked it over, and their ardor wilted." They disbanded. Five years later, a more determined group came together, rehearsed it for 14 months, then sang...
...title of this book is only fifty percent accurate. It says that Briton Hadden was the co-founder of 'Time.' And that is true. It also says that the book is a biography. And this assertion is wildly misleading and ought to be chopped up a syllable at a time...