Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pilgrim. At the Hyde Park Hotel, London, there arrived last week James Hazen Hyde, founder and onetime president of the potent U.S. Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Hyde was attended by a cook, a librarian and twelve other khitmutgars. He took a suite overlooking Hyde Park. Said he: "I am on a pilgrimage. My family's former estate was Hyde Park. Four hundred years ago they lived at Hyde Park Manor House, later confiscated by Henry VIII...
...instance of Americans in their number-appointed James Louis Garvin, the man designated by the late Lord Northcliffe as "greatest living journalist." Since 1908, Journalist Garvin had edited the London Observer (Sunday), being retained by the present owner (Viscount Astor) after the death of Lord Northcliffe, the founder...
...Bureau and was sent to Paris, London and Manhattan after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) to negotiate loans for reconstruction and refund the Japanese war debt-in all of which activities he was phenomenally successful. Returning to Japan, he was rewarded by the late Prince Katsura. founder of the Kensei-kai (the present Government party), who made him Vice Minister of Finance but allowed him entirely to determine the policy of that department while himself holding the title of Finance Minister as a mere adornment to that of Premier. When the Katsura Government fell, he entered the House...
...Death visited Monrovia Bay off the coast of Liberia, Africa. There he found a man who had lived almost two years beyond the scriptural three score and ten, a bristly-bearded old man in horn-rimmed spectacles on board a quiet yacht. Death took him, took Edward Wyllis Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, whose address during his failing last years had been, "On Board S. S. Ohio, abroad on the waters of the world...
Died. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 72, founder of the Scripps-Howard newspapers; aboard his yacht Ohio, off the coast of Liberia; of apoplexy. (See THE PRESS...