Word: foundered
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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...
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...
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...
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...
...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...