Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smart Londoners first ignored, then snubbed, then socially embraced Mr. H. Gordon Selfridge, keen but eccentric U. S. born founder of the first U. S.-type London "department store," Selfridge...
...have learned that the German in whom Americans are most interested is President von Hindenburg. He is often compared with Washington, but I believe that he is more like Lincoln. He is not, like Washington, the founder of his country; but, like Lincoln, he is the preserver of its unity and the reconciler of its two hostile camps [Monarchist and Socialist...
...Whelan and Schulte cooperating interests) recently created a subsidiary, Union Tobacco Co., to manufacture tobacco products. The subsidiary Union Tobacco Co. at once leased the factories of the Tobacco Products Co. The principal stockholder of Tobacco Products was George J. Whelan, brother of Charles A. Whelan and a co-founder of United Cigar Stores...
...last week, spoke Chief Scout Daniel Carter Beard, 77, founder of U. S. Boy Scouts, at the Boy Scout camp near Bear Mountain, N. Y. Among his listeners were Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas, Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut, Barron Collier, August Heckscher, Will H. Hays, Edward F. Albee, William H. ("Big Bill") Edwards, General Robert Lee Bullard, and some 800 Boy Scouts...
FRANCIS EDWARD ("FATHER ENDEAVOR") CLARK, 76, Boston; the late founder of Christian Endeavor societies (TIME, July...