Word: founder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live in the place, so he could see how an ordinary boy would improve on the carefully arranged surroundings. The new head, Provost Donald W. Pierpont, 41, needed all the hints he could get to make sense out of the "Deed of Trust" that the school's founder had left behind...
...consulting a classified telephone directory, looking for likely sounding names among the clergy. When Brooks Brothers was unable to supply grey flannels because of wartime shortages, the clergyman-provost told the boys to wear what they pleased. Mrs. Riddle was outraged, and the provost resigned. Shortly after, in 1944, Founder Riddle shut down Avon and turned over the property to President Roosevelt, a family friend, for use as an Army school for the blind. Its purposely crooked brick walls, sagging stone stairs and mazelike character made it a natural for sightless veterans learning to "braille along...
...Free Seats. Manufacturers, led by the P.M.A., screamed like wounded banshees. P.M.A.'s founder, rock-ribbed old "Uncle Joe" Grundy, sent a handyman to have words with Big Jim. Ordinarily, Republican governors do as Uncle Joe says. But Big Jim, after hearing the Grundy man out, took his feet off his desk, stood up and roared: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time [that] I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." The tax bills passed...
Died. James Herbert McGraw, 87, founder of the McGraw-Hill publishing empire (38 trade magazines and the largest technical book publishing house in the world); after long illness; in San Francisco. In 1885, Schoolteacher McGraw joined the American Railway Publishing Co., later bought an interest in it for $2,500. A spectacularly successful publisher for 50 years, he always claimed that he liked schoolteaching better...
...Gallegos, founder of socialistic Accion Democrática, spent most of his adult years, more with the pen than the sword, fighting the late (1935) ironhanded Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, tyrant of Venezuela for 27 years...