Word: founder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rucker is founder of the Tool Owner's Union which a New York State Department of Labor Board branded "fascistic" last winter. The board turned down the organizations charter application because, it claimed, final decisions within the Union rested with one man rather than the membership...
...Brown, bull-throated, bull-necked newspaper publisher who once directed a Knox-for-President movement, was tactical director of the 1946 G.O.P. election campaign, and claims the smelt-eating championship of the U.S. Congress; and Mrs. Katharine K. Brown (no kin), vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, founder of Dayton's Junior League, member of the D.A.R. and Colonial Dames of America, and vice president of the Ohio Yellow...
Married. Henry John ("Jack") Heinz II, 39, president of H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz Co. (and grandson of the founder); and Jane Ewing Jenney, thirtyish, socialite divorcee; both for the second time; in Mt. Kisco...
...world has almost forgotten Maria Montessori, the founder of progressive education. But she was still alive last week, though far from her native Italy and her world-famed kindergartens. And she was still quite capable of laying down the law. In the shade of a giant banyan tree in the oceanside colony of Adyar, India, she had just laid it down to members of the Indian Theosophical Society. When someone asked her if she had become a theosophist, the self-confident old (77) Dottoressa snapped: "I am a Montessorian...
Died. Charles Francis ("Pop") Adams,* 70, millionaire president of the First National chain of grocery stores, co-founder of the Boston Bruins hockey team, organizer of the Suffolk Downs rare track; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston...