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Word: foundered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearby sat Sir Robert Baden-Powell, 72, founder of all Scouts. Chuckling, he remarked: "Some famous journalist said we would all be battling if we attempted to bring together so many different nationalities. Yet here we are, happy, ready and tolerant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Millionaires | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Last week at London, Richard Joshua Reynolds, 23, son of the late founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarets, etc.), was found guilty of killing a man while drunk and driving his motor car. The court sentenced him to five months' light imprisonment for manslaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drunkenness | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Died. Ambrose Monell, 23, of Manhattan, son and heir of the late nickel tycoon (founder and longtime head of the National Nickel Co.) ; near Armonk, N. Y. when an airplane which he and a friend had chartered for a week-end trip crashed, killing both passengers and the pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Died. Otto Floto, 65, of Denver, sports editor of the Denver Post and founder of "The Otto Floto Dog and Pony Show," from which grew the "Sells-Floto Circus"; in Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Seven years ago, while he was still founder-president of the since-merged National City Bank of Chicago, Scot Forgan was approached by two young men about to start a new business. They wanted him to buy some of their stock at $25 the share. Looking down his straight strong nose, Banker Forgan declared he could buy no stock. Said he: "I'm just a poor mon and I wor-rk for a sollery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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