Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike almost every other big city in the U. S., Philadelphia had no real art museum until after World War I. In 1919 hardboiled, gimlet-eyed Quaker Lawyer Eli Kirk Price started pulling political strings, got a modest $200,000 appropriation "to build a museum of art at Fairmount," then strung the city fathers along year by year until he had a $12,000,000 building. "He knew if we did the ends first, we'd have to finish the middle sometime," says bulky, bustling Fiske Kimball, who in 1925 left his job as head of New York University...
...press popped with inspired stories of Germany's demands before she would discuss peace: a free hand in the Balkans, recognition of her Czecho-Slovakian and Polish conquests). In the remaining 57, he found time to attend the opera (The Marriage of Figaro), be quietly feted by Alexander Kirk, U. S. charge d'affaires in Berlin, call on the Italian Ambassador. He also...
...helped push Cap Rieber to the top of Texas Corp., has for some years been attorney for Mrs. O'Brien. Promptly Mr. Dunnington was elected a member of a trouble-shooting executive committee of seven, including Morgan-Partner Harry P. Davison, onetime Morgan-Partner William Ewing, Donald Kirk David (representing the Ziegler interests) and Paul Fleischmann. Last week Standard Brands had other changes to announce. To President Thomas L. Smith, onetime Standard Brands wagon man, had gone the duties of chief executive officer, taken from Board Chairman (and fellow wagon man) Joseph Wilshire. To vice-presidencies had gone...
Welles conferred with the American Charge d' Affairs, Alexander Kirk, tonight. Earlier he saw Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop for two and one half hours and then had a long conference with the Under Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs, Baron Von Weizsaecker...
Civilization on the North American Continent, previously considered a more 5,000 years old, was given an age of nearly 25,000 years by Kirk Bryan, associate professor of Geology, and Louis L. Ray, former assistant in Geology, in a recent report...