Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished educator from St. Louis had bought up the campus of the defunct Chillicothe Business College and was about to open a full-fledged university, the whole town of Chillicothe. Mo. (pop. 9,850) was delighted at the thought of the prestige it would bring. The university's founder-president, the Rev. Clyde Belin. B.B.A.. Th.B.. Th.M., Th.D.. Ph.D., was a scholarly, dedicated-looking gentleman. His plans for setting up a liberal arts college, a Bible college, a college of engineering, and schools of home economics, business, agriculture, journalism and law were certainly impressive...
...Turkey in the 1920s, Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Ataturk prohibited "astrologers, fortunetellers and dervishes," and the Mevlevi order went underground. Now the ban is being lifted quietly by the Turkish government; in addition to its monastic members, the order has some half million lay members in Turkey. That Founder Jalal al-Din Rumi and his teachings are still a living force was demonstrated last week in Istanbul when 200 policemen turned out to cope with 4,000 enthusiasts who broke the windows and smashed the counter of the city's main post office. Cause of the riot...
...Workers and Laundry Workers-the A.F.L.-C.I.O. chiefs at Atlantic City did indeed show a sober sense of responsibility. But when it came to "broad economic and social responsibilities" in collective bargaining, it looked as if labor's leaders in 1957 had not pushed very far beyond A.F.L. Founder Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), who once summed up labor's economic philosophy for his day in a single word: "More...
Submerging their other differences, 45 of the National Assembly's 80 members pledged themselves to support a common ballot, demanded that President Mirza name Republican Party Leader Malik Firoz Khan Noon, a onetime protege of Pakistan's famed Founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to form a caretaker government to rule until next year's general elections. If his 45-man majority stands firm and Prime Minister Noon brings about elections next year with a common ballot, Pakistan will have taken a long step along the road to political stability...
Died. Frank Ernest Gannett, 81, publisher-founder of an empire that includes 22 newspapers, four radio and three TV stations; after long illness; in Rochester, N.Y. (see PRESS...