Word: founder
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...youth Frank James Gavin had as big a hero as a railroad man could wish. Hired on as a $15-a-month office boy for the Great Northern Railway, Gavin went to work for James Jerome Hill, the line's pioneering founder who flung the Great Northern across the western top of the U.S. with such impatience that he once left his snug private car to help a section crew dig the locomotive out of a snowbank...
Furthermore, the Foundation promised "supporting documentation" on Bunche's "left-wing activities" to any alumnus, curious or upset, who would contribute a dollar or more to the cause. Prepared and published by a New York research firm known as The Alliance, Inc--of which Roosevelt is both founder and President--the documentation fills a 49-page mimeographed book-let which opens with a carefully worded statement...
Mosque & State. One reason for the current bitterness of Turkish politics is that Republicans fear that Menderes, to stay in power, is undoing the separation of mosque and state decreed by the late great Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic. To win favor in the devoutly Moslem countryside, Menderes has provided government funds for a vast mosque-building program, reintroduced religious instruction in the nation's primary schools, and encouraged the reading of the Koran over the state radio. To emancipated Turks, religious rule recalls the stifling, narrow days of the old Ottoman caliphate...
Died. Alfred Howard Fuller, 46, president of the Fuller Brush Co., son of the founder (who is now chairman of the board); in an auto accident that also killed his wife; near Hawthorne, Nevada. At 30, Fuller took command of the company's 108 branches and 6,500 dealers, introduced the Fuller Brush Woman to sell soaps and cosmetics...
...proxy fight, Evans and Landa persuaded Gurdon Wattles, chairman of Electric Auto-Lite Co. and a Crane director, to back them with 322,900 shares of Crane stock owned by Auto-Lite. They also went to Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, 89, only living daughter of Crane's founder, explained that Evans' chief argument with Crane President Neele E. Stearns was over Stearns's slowness in expanding the firm's inadequate network of independent wholesalers. Proof of Evans' complaint was Crane's first-quarter earnings (23? per share v. 21? last year), which...