Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electing its directors for the coming year the Associated Press paid a special compliment to its chief organizer and its first president, Vic tor Fremont Lawson. As a special honor he was reelected to the Directorate by acclamation. Mr. Lawson is publisher of The Chicago Daily News. On Christmas Day, 1875, he, with Melville E. Stone (now retired head of the Associated Press) and two others, set up the News with $5,000 capital. The others soon dropped out. Stone maintained his connection with the News until he took charge of the Associated Press. Lawson and Stone instituted a series...
...Members oif Parliament will sit down to a prandial celebration. Those who accepted the invitation: The Duchess of Atholl (Conservative), Lady Astor (Conservative), Mrs. Wintringham (Liberal), Mrs. Hilton Philipson (Conservative), Miss Margaret Bondfield (Labor). Those to be heard from were: Lady Terrington (Liberal), Mrs. D. Jewson and Miss Susan Lawson (Laborites...
ROGER BLOOMER-John Howard Lawson-Seltzer ($1.75). Produced last March by the Equity Players, Roger Bloomer at once gave rise to acrid critical warfare. "Arresting, daring, stimulating, fine," cried some. "Trash, hocuspocus, ineffective nonsense," muttered others. No doubt the publication of the play in book form will arouse an equally lively discussion. The story is that of a dreamy kid from Iowa-his adventures, struggles and failures with life and New York. A novel dramatic experiment well worth reading even by those who will be most irritated...
Henri, Charles H. Davis, Leon Kroll, Robert Spencer, John Folinsbee, Frederick Frieseke, Richard Miller, Jerome Myers, Bryson Burroughs, Henry Mc-Carter, Hugh Breckenridge, Hobart Nichols, Ernest Lawson, R. S. Meryman, Edward C. Volkert...
Richard H. Webber, connoisseur of Detroit, gave to the art institute of his city a painting, Winter, by Ernest Lawson. Lawson, in California born, in Kansas and Paris taught, is one of the progressive painters of New York...