Word: founder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany and Switzerland, young Weizmann met the leaders of Russian Zionism: Achad Ha-am ("One of the People"), the Gandhi of the Jewish renaissance, and Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, its practical leader. He also met Western Jews: assimilationists who wanted no part of Zionism ; dedicated Jews, like Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist Congress; elegant English Jews, like Sir Francis Montefiore, who wore white gloves to Congress meetings because he had to shake so many hands...
...Merely proper rest, fresh air, and healthy food is what these children need," Henry S. Williams '49, the camp's founder, said last night. French social agencies have already furnished the site, and the food and equipment will come from America...
...objective and above national partisanship, misrepresents the nature of our difference with Russia and, falsely, tars us with the brush of aggressiveness and imperialism with which it is obliged to tar Russia. And it's quite true that whatever may be the pure intentions of its founder and of some of its supporters, such a movement cannot but become the tool of the unnaïve and nonimpractical Communists...
...Hayes Landon, founder of the Springfield (Mass.) District Men's Republican Club, went to Washington to see Truman's Inauguration. Said he: "I'm tired of waiting for a Republican...
...watchmaker, bearded Aaron Dennison was something of a genius. He invented an automatic cutter for watch wheels in 1833, and fathered mass production for the U.S. watch industry. As a businessman and founder of the famed Waltham Watch Co. of Waltham, Mass., his renown was of a different sort. His crazy ventures and his carelessness in letting his company go broke earned him the nickname, "Boston lunatic...