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Last week the Girl Scouts' directors elected a new chairman to succeed Mrs. Hoover. They elected the lady who for eight years had been national Girl Scout treasurer, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady...
Professor John J. Abel of Johns Hopkins removed his spectacles and wiped them clean of imperceptible dust. Ecomiums can be embarrassing and he had just received a $195,000 nugget of them from President Francis Patrick Garvan of the Chemical Foundation. The money was of course not for Professor Abel himself. It was to finance research on the cause of the common cold. But in giving the sum to the School of Hygiene & Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Garvan had insisted that the fund be called "The John J. Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold...
Menace. U. S. chemical manufacturers are alarmed. Francis P. Garvan, alert President of the Chemical Foundation in New York and spokesman for U. S. producers, regards the combination as a menace. Said he last week: "Is there an American with soul so dead as not to thrill at this threat? . . . What was our position in 1914? That position can come again and will come again unless all the American people unite against this combine threatening their peace and their prosperity. . . . Don't make the mistake of thinking this is a dye fight, or a nitrate fight, or a rayon...
...prize essay contest, the awards of which are endorsed by Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Garvan of New York, will be conducted during this winter, and will close on March 1, 1928. This contest is open to Freshmen in all colleges and universities in the United States. The awards will be six first prizes of $500, six second prizes of $300, and six third prizes of $200, for essays on each of the following six subjects...
President Wilson nor onetime (1919-21) Alien Property Custodian Francis Patrick Garvan was actuated by any but patriotic motives in selling German dye patents to the Chemical Foundation. The patents, sold for $271,000, are alleged to have been worth millions, and Mr. Garvan is now president of the Chemical Foundation. But Alexander Mitchell Palmer, previous (1917-1919) Alien Property Custodian had been empowered during his office by the President to make the sale though the transaction was not effected until Mr. Garvan's regime. Suit to recover was brought by President Harding's administration, under agency...