Word: lathrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirsting for travel, David Fairchild obtained a research post at Naples supported by the Smithsonian Institution. On board ship he met a rich, mundivagant Chicagoan named Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from...
CHURCHILL LATHROP Chairman Department of Art Dartmouth College Hanover...
...Religious Minorities, a 20-year-old body to which belong such people as Nicholas Murray Butler, Herbert Hoover, Senator Arthur Capper, did not forget His Beatitude's words when he became Premier last month (TIME, Feb. 28). To Patriarch Cristea the Committee's Chairman John Howland Lathrop wrote urging that, for the sake of the Christian church throughout the world, he moderate his stand. Last week, to the great surprise and pleasure of Jews in Rumania and abroad, the Patriarch...
Paul A. Anderson, a professional who has directed the plays of the last ten years, will do so again. Aiding him will be Manager David M. Gooder '39 and Assistant Managers Waldo Stewart '39, Lathrop W. Forbush '39, and James H. Legendre...
...prizes for the first, second and third places will be ten, five and two dollars respectively. A committee of three judges will make the awards. Professor Lathrop, of Dartmouth College, William Longyear, of Pratt Institute, and Frank Ritter, Display Director for Eastman Kodak Company were the three men chosen by the Carnival Committee...