Word: founder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Florynce Kennedy, attorney and founder of the Feminist Party, told the crowd last night, "We must have a moratorium on all nuclear proliteration and plants, everything. We must escalate the grafitti, we've got to put it on prime time network television...
Given his background, it was natural that when named managing editor of TIME by Co-Founder Henry Luce, he regarded his job much like a military command. He was a great commander: tough, decisive, but always fair and humane. The managing editor of TIME is responsible for everything that appears in the magazine, for how the magazine shapes its picture of the world each week, and Alex relished that responsibility. His editing pencil raced across the copy, deleting, adding, transposing, scribbling questions in the margin. When the phone interrupted him, he would always answer it himself, avoiding the wasted word...
...wicker chair, sporting a rak ish beret and clutching a rifle in one hand and a spear in the other, he looked defiantly out at the world from a thousand wall posters of radical chic. FREE HUEY the bumper stickers cried, and everybody knew that meant Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers, imprisoned for the death of a policeman in a Shootout in Oakland, Calif...
...founder and Organizer--Annual Benefit Wrist-wrestling Tournament for Andrew Puopolo Memorial Scholarship...
...specified that the recipient be "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." The first winners were Switzerland's Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross and originator of the Gene va Convention, and France's Frederic Passy, a noted pacifist who convened the first International Peace Congress in Paris in 1889. The first female recipient (in 1905) was Austrian Baroness Bertha von Suttner, a longtime confidante of Nobel...