Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many men have received such formal homage while they were alive. Among the few are: the late William Osier when he was teaching at Johns Hopkins; Harvey Gushing, Harvard's brain surgeon; the late Abraham Jacobi of Columbia, founder of pediatrics (children's diseases) ; Carl Gustaf A. Forssell, radiologist of Sweden; Albert Sigmund Gustav Döderline, gynecologist of Germany. And now Cancer Man Ewing of Cornell...
Coinciding with this report, however, came an announcement showing that a potent Manhattan banker and his friends still have faith in Manufacturers, have backed up their faith with cash. Harvey Dow Gibson, chairman of New York Trust Co.'s executive committee, revealed that he & associates have bought a large block of stock in Manufacturers, that he will become president, that some of his associates may later take places on the directorate. The stock was bought from Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. which previously held a 32% interest in Manufacturers. How much was bought and at what figure remained undisclosed...
...write.* Alabama education has had no great patron like Delaware's Pierre Samuel du Pont or New England's Edward Stephen Harkness. Last week, however, it was revealed that Alabama would get some $7,500,000 worth of brand new boys' schools, bequest of the late Harvey G. Woodward, Birmingham real estate and iron man who died last November...
...Harvey G. Woodward made a fortune in Birmingham and Manhattan real estate and in his family's Woodward Iron Co. Bluff, hearty, he scorned any show of wealth, frequently wore khaki trousers, woolen shirts. In life he made known his views on education and religion to only a few intimates. Born of an Episcopal family, of British ancestry, he was never a church member, never a Ku Kluxer. He believed that religion is a personal matter, that church dogma should not be taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment...
...there are sporadic brushes with local authorities over its sale. But in its pages, "hell" appears "h-," or "heck." With the money earned in two years by Whiz Bang, Publisher Fawcett launched upon a largely successful series of publishing ventures, assisted by his brothers Roscoe and (the late) Harvey. The first, True Confessions, began by giving actual confessions of criminals and other big figures in the news (e.g. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw), but later turned to the usual anonymous-girl-gone-wrong narrative. At its sexiest stage it claimed 400,000 circulation, but a mistaken (and temporary) effort to "clean...