Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Saloon League founders, the Rev. Howard Hyde Russell may be isolated as "the Founder." Last week indeed he dedicated a monument commemorating a temperance speech made by Abraham Lincoln in 1846. The monument's inscription contains, in large capitals, the name of Abraham Lincoln, in slightly larger capitals the name of Howard Hyde Russell, described as "Founder of the Anti-Saloon League...
...Founder Russell was born at Stillwater, Minn., in 1855. He was first general superintendent of the League, started branches in 36 states, traveled 50,000 miles a year for eight years. In 1915 he auto-mobiled from Manhattan to San Francisco on what was termed a "water wagon" tour. A male quartet accompanied him on this trip. He is one of the founders of the World League against Alcoholism...
...Dean of the co-educational Washington College of Law, the only U. S. law school directed by women, founded in 1896 by Miss Gillett and Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. She had been a co-worker of Susan B. Anthony, had organized the first woman's suffrage lobby, been founder and president of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, vice president for the District of Columbia branch of the American Bar association, and chairman of the Lawyer's Council of the National Woman's Party. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley was chairman...
Their dean, the co-founder (1920) of the Little Entente was Dr. Edouard Benes (pronounced Benesh), Foreign Minister and leading statesman of Czechoslovakia. As host, Dr. Benes welcomed Foreign Ministers Ion M. Mitilineu of Rumania and M. Marinkovitch of Jugoslavia...
...company, under the presidency of its founder Frank A. Seiberling, was practically bankrupt. Dillon, Read & Co., who worked out the refinancing plans, had President Seiberling removed and the company placed under a management committee. This committee consisted of Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., John Sherwin of the Union Trust Co., Cleveland, and Mr. Young. Mr. Young has been inactive as a manager, in reserve as counsellor...