Word: founder
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...choice of Venezuela's men & women for president of the republic was Novelist Rómulo Gallegos, a founder in 1941 of Acción Democrática, which has controlled the government since the swift revolution of 1945. His victory over his nearest rival, 31-year-old Rafael Caldera, candidate of the conservative COPEI (Committee for Independent Political Organization), had been forecast from the start...
Mount Cranmore in North Conway, the south-most major resort in this area, is the Plymouth rock of American skiing. Here, around Bans Snieder known as the founder of American skiing, known as the the greats of Austria and Switcherland to provide probably the best school in the United States...
Died. Thomas W. Warner, 73, founder (in the early 1900s) of a small Indiana firm manufacturing auto parts, which grew along with the infant auto industry, merged in 1928 with three others to form what is now the Borg-Warner Corp., giant Midwest makers of everything from harrow discs to washing machines; in Pasadena, Calif...
King's Kingdom. There was gunplay aplenty in the days of Captain Richard King, the ranch's founder, a dark, curly-headed man with drive, empire-building dreams and merry generosity. Richard King, an Irishman's son, worked as a jeweler's apprentice in Orange County, N.Y., didn't like it and stowed away on a ship. He found seafaring more to his taste, and before many years was running a steamboat on the Rio Grande. During the war with Mexico he laid by a nest egg hauling supplies by boat to General Zachary Taylor...
Simplicity and success have not been characteristic of the gigantic corporation until recently, however. Too rapid expansion and ill-health, partially caused by over-work, have caused founder Kitfield not only to discontinue the sale of coffee, hot cocoa, and ham and cheese sandwiches but even to retire from college for the rest of the year. He sold out to buddy Clark...