Word: garvan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dearborn, Mich, last week Henry Ford, Irenee du Pont, Francis Patrick Garvan and 200 tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists assembled for a big charade. Mr. Garvan, president of the Chemical Foundation, led the enthusiasts into Mr. Ford's reproduction of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. There, on a table from Abraham Lincoln's law office and after the Fordson High School band played "Stars & Stripes Forever" and Handel's "Largo," Mr. Garvan solemnly wrote his name at the end of a lengthy Declaration of Dependence Upon the Soil and of the Right of Self...
Signing. Mr. Garvan, dipping a pen with a big spotted feather attached into a 15? bottle of ink, signed. The Fordson High School band played "My Country Tis of Thee." Rev. Hedly G. Stacey of Dearborn pronounced a benediction. And the 200 tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists squiggled their names below Mr. Garvan's. When they all had signed and the Fordson High School band had saluted their gesture with the "New World" symphony, "Coronation Banner" and "The Star Spangled Banner," two expected names were lacking. Henry Ford and Irenee du Pont, after lunching with...
...lined up. The policy is to compel the use of home-produced alcohol in the blend or to forego taxes on alcohol used in motors. To head off such trends, President Axtell J. Byles of the American Petroleum Institute last week offered to put up $15,000, if President Garvan of the Chemical Foundation also put up $15,000, for a second impartial investigation of the value of alcohol-gasoline blends. Mr. Garvan last week declined to match Mr. Byles...
...included few socialites. This winter, charity tournaments in most big cities and an extensive publicity campaign have helped restore the sport's cachet. John D. Rockefeller Jr. has had bowling alleys installed in his Pocantico Hills estate. Other famed bowlers are Harold Lloyd, Charles M. Schwab, Francis P. Garvan, Julius Fleischmann, Heywood Broun, Wooster Lambert (Listerine), who usually attends the Bowling Congress in his private...
Awarded. Notre Dame University's Laetare Medal, outstanding U. S. award to live, lay Catholics: to Mrs. Nicholas Frederic (Genevieve Garvan) Brady, philanthropist, vice chairman of the National Women's Committee on Welfare and Relief Mobilization. Last year's award: To Tenor John McCormack...