Word: founder
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After a lifetime of futile warring, peace-loving Moshesh, founder of the Basuto nation, wrote to Queen Victoria in 1868: "I am glad that my people have been allowed to rest and live in the large folds of the blanket of England. My country is your blanket, O Queen, and my people are the lice...
...Founder of the Industrial Relations Council of Greater Boston, Bliss has been Chairman of the executive committee since its inception. At General Electric, he holds the post of District Manager...
Last week the Hearst empire was 60 years old. In the U.S. Senate, where its founder once hoped to sit, and in the House, where he once did, old acquaintances got off some carefully chosen but occasionally surprising words about William Randolph Hearst. Said Kansas' deaf old (81) Arthur Capper of his fellow publisher: "always. . . a fighting liberal." Said Nevada's George Malone, an old friend of the family: "still his own best editor." Edith Nourse Rogers earnestly told the House that "if ever the term 'public service' requires a synonym, I believe it will...
Chiropractors (not to be confused with osteopaths, who often have medical degrees and base their treatments on correcting faulty body structure) still work on Founder Palmer's theory that most human ills derive from "subluxations" (dislocations) of the spinal column. Their treatment: "adjustment" (manipulation) of the spine, offered as a cure-all for a wide range of ailments, from scarlet fever to stomach ulcers...
Died. Carrie Chapman Catt, 88, militant matriarch of world feminists, successor to the late Susan B. Anthony as leader of the fight for U.S. women's suffrage, founder of the National League of Women Voters; in New Rochelle, N.Y. After the suffragettes' 1920 victory (the 19th Amendment), she looked around for new arenas, crusaded vigorously for world peace, meanwhile kept a sharp eye on women's rights at home & abroad...