Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bowles III, founder of the Sunday, acquired also an evening paper. He made money, but he likewise set standards of commercial honesty which made his paper unique. The third Bowles died with honor not many years...
...There is likewise the morning World (steadfast in the principles of its founder, Joseph Pulitzer) for which the late Frank Cobb created the most notable editorial page in America. He was wholly untrammeled, as is his successor, Walter Lippmann...
...when it was founded by Booker T. Washington, the National Negro Business League convened. Dr. Robert R. Moton, President of Tuskegee University, presided. In his opening speech he referred to the National Negro Finance Corporation, recently organized as a financial backer for Negro enterprises: "For 16 years the founder of this organization, Booker T. Washington, sought with tact and courage to overcome what seemed almost an obsession with our people- business fear and timidity. In large measure as individuals, and even more so in groups, we have overcome this timidity. The need for the present, therefore, is to stress...
...long line of makers of local gravestones, but rose to fame and munificence as one of those who instituted the classical revival of Italian Art. He made statues of Palamedes, of Napoleon, of Hebe, of Hercules and also of George Washington. In his great style he modeled the founder of our country, in the flowing toga of a Roman Senator. Secure permission to have made, from this statue, a replica in the best Carrara marble. The State of North Carolina will pay the expense, and we, the Legislature of this Commonwealth, will place the replica on the steps...
...Samuel Mather and Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, of Cleveland; Miss Fanny T. Cochran and Miss Juliana Wood, of Philadelphia; Joseph Lee, George Wigglesworth, Charles E. Mason, of Boston; Edward S. Harkness, George Foster Peabody, Paul D. Cravath (Chairman of Fisk's Board of Trustees, whose father was a Fisk founder and its President for 25 years), V. Everit Macy, Arthur Curtiss James, Dwight W. Morrow, James H. Post, all of Manhattan. Samuel Sachs, of Manhattan, a trustee, has established the Ella Sachs Piotz Memorial Professorship...