Word: godwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director of the Museum since 1927 has been Blake-More Godwin, a tweedy executive who came to Toledo as curator in 1916 and personally designed the Museum's Gothic Hall. Greying Mr. Godwin has been able to adhere with exemplary firmness to a policy of never accepting a bequest with any strings attached to it, never accepting any more of a private collection than he wants, and buying "only the best of its kind whether we like it personally or not." By this standard Founder Libbey began and Mr. Godwin has continued to amass one of the best- balanced...
...visitors to the Museum last year was 350,996, including children. This figure is about 101% of Toledo's population. According to Art Annual the next best showing of any art museum in the country was made by the Joslyn Memorial Museum in Omaha, Neb., with 49%. Director Godwin and his wife, Molly Ohl Godwin, have built up this following by offering free courses in drawing, painting and music to all the schoolchildren of Toledo, by bringing the best symphony orchestras for free concerts in the Museum's peristyle, thus spending Founder Libbey's money as much...
...official press release, an hour later sent messenger boys around trying to retrieve it. Washington correspondents were told it had all been a mistake. But the fat was on the fire, because not only Judge Wilson but Messrs. Harrison, Cummings and Farley were denounced in the article. Stuart Godwin, the Interior's pressagent, had a toothache and could not see the Press. Secretary Ickes returned from Manhattan to find matters in a mess and Senator Harrison, mad clean through, hot-footing to the White House. Hastily Mr. Ickes announced: "I did not authorize it. I would not have authorized...
...first five: Everest, Godwin-Austen (28,250), Kanchenjunga (28,146), Makalu (27,790), Dhawalagiri (26,795). All are in the Himalayas and none has been climbed...
...Maxie ("Slapsie") Rosenbloom, jaunty Manhattan pugilist who has traveled 73,000 mi. to 30 fights in the past year: the undisputed light heavyweight championship of the world, which most people had forgotten that he did not already hold; in a bout against Bob Godwin of Daytona Beach, Fla., who was designated champion by the National Boxing Association last month after a tournament which Rosenbloom did not deign to enter; by a technical knockout in the fourth round; in Manhattan...