Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innovations as museum branches (in his own branch libraries), free tours for school children, exhibitions of well-designed articles bought for a dime apiece in the city stores, a "lending collection" of art objects ranging from Tibetan to Pennsylvanian, packed in neat boxes and borrowed like library books. When John Cotton Dana died ten years ago this month, he had coaxed the annual city appropriation from $10,000 to $150,000, upped annual attendance to 125,000, won the title of "Newark's First Citizen...
...with it. Museum workers trained in Dana's "apprentice classes" (another first in the U. S.) have taken his fresh attack into a dozen important museums. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has adopted a policy of exhibiting industrial design, has added architecture. Most important of all, John Cotton Dana's social philosophy of art inspired the nation's first Federal Art Project through its director, Holger Cahill, who worked under Dana from...
...year slight, greying Josephine Roche became heir to the minority interest of her late conservative father, John J. Roche, in the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., blood was spilled on another page of the grim history of Colorado's mine wars. To Vassar-educated Miss Roche, who had spent 19 years as a social worker, that was bitter: six diggers had been killed in a strike riot within sight of the gaunt tipple of Rocky Mountain Fuel's Columbine mine...
Last week, unable to effect a compromise that would keep R. M. F. out of ruinous reorganization, she stepped out. Old Vice President John R. Lawson, onetime president of Colorado's Federation of Labor, resigned and took three months' pay. Into Rocky Mountain Fuel's offices in Denver moved William Taylor, president of Cleveland's Coal Mine Management Co. His aim: to reorganize R. M. F.. put it back on a paying basis. Colorado mine union leaders talked to Reorganizer Taylor, said they were satisfied no change in labor policies was intended...
...Lake, in the Mojave desert in California, is a monument to U. S. chemical progress. In 1926 American Potash and Chemical, taking over a property three times bankrupt since 1896, began to research the problem of deriving potash commercially from its abundant borax properties. Directed by famed Chemist Dr. John Edgar Teeple (died: March 23, 1931), it perfected methods for producing potash-two tons of potash for each ton of borax...