Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 1927, William Crapo Durant, founder and for two terms controlling power of General Motors, bought advertising space in the daily newspapers, published therein the statement that he had resigned from several directorates to devote his full time and attention to Durant Motors...
More and more novels. More and more notoriety. More and more money. The Belly of Paris captured the public. Zola grew fatter, became a bluff, boorish figure in cafe & salon life. People revolted at Naturalism but read it. Staunchly its founder proceeded, one thousand words...
Died. Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, last of the famed Duke tobacco tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune...
Died. Edwin S. Bayer, 59, president of famed Julius Kayser & Co. (hosiery, underwear) son-in-law of Founder Julius Kayser; after an operation; in Manhattan...
Married. Catherina Petronella Smuts, daughter of famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts, onetime Premier of the Union of South Africa and a founder of the League of Nations; and William Bancroft Clark, great grandson of the late famed orator John Bright, of Street, Somersetshire; in Irene, Transvaal, South Africa...