Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweet Chocolate is candy, not food. Thus ruled Federal Judge W. H. Kirkpatrick in Philadelphia, last week. Result: the U. S. government will not have to return $4,495,325.66 principal, $1,500,000 interest, to Hershey and other chocolate companies. This sum was paid in candy taxes to the U. S. under acts now repealed...
...France (French)?Milton S. Hershey (chocolate); Anna Case, soprano, onetime of the Metropolitan Opera Company; 50 ex-U. S. Volunteer Ambulance Drivers, to revisit the Western Front...
...parallel with Stephen Girard is curiously close, and it is significant that Mr. Hershey went to Philadelphia and studied the college there before he opened his own school in 1909. Girard's will in 1831 specified that " poor, male, white orphan children" only should be admitted. Preference was to be given first to those applying from Philadelphia, and then to those from elsewhere in Pennsylvania and the U. S. Mr. Hershey directs likewise that the first favors be shown to applicants from surrounding counties. Girard enforced a prejudice of his against sectarianism when he directed that no ecclesiastic be allowed...
...Hershey's generosity is colossal. He keeps only $1,000,000 and his automobile for himself. The question will undoubtedly be asked whether, on the whole, it is good or bad for education to be subject to the personal whims of its benefactors. But meanwhile the Hershey Industrial School will be teaching a thousand or more boys to support themselves...
...built the village of Hershey is a genial, unimpressive widower of 66. He lives in the village palace with his "old crony," Harry Lebkicher, formerly a candy apprentice...