Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost entirely to Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson's unique and highly individualistic application of a saying of Abraham Lincoln's, the last six words of which are chiseled across the front of the $10,700,000 News building: "God must have loved the common people because HE MADE SO MANY OF THEM...
...result of self-conscious effort on the part of its publisher, who is famed for his rough-&-ready dress, his brusque manners and his liking for rubbing shoulders with the proletariat in saloons and subways. A rich boy himself, Joe Patterson never got along with other rich boys, had made several sporadic efforts to become a man of the people before he found his chance as a publisher. From 1914 until 1925 he and his cousin, Robert Rutherford McCormick, shared the running of the Chicago Tribune (which their grandfather, Joseph Medill, had founded), and Patterson was as much responsible...
Rensselaer was almost wiped out by fire in 1904. It was resurrected by Mrs. Russell Sage (who gave it $1,000,000) and by an anonymous old man whose money made the institution what it is today but who for more than a third of a century has been known to Rensselaer men only as "The Builder." Rensselaer's alumni have long speculated about "The Builder's" identity. This month Rensselaer's busy President William Otis Hotchkiss at long last told them. Because he died last January (at 73), his family consented to let it be known...
...finger in several Mellon enterprises, few had ever heard of old John Lockhart. He was born, lived and died in the same street in Pittsburgh's east end. He ate sparingly, rarely drank, never married. No intellectual, he read few books, but was fond of the theatre and made a hobby of collecting theatre programs, which he always had autographed by his companions. He was a member of Philadelphia's Union League Club, contributed regularly to the Republican Party...
...Arthur E. La Porte, commanding) was readied at its Port Washington, L. I. base to take off for Lisbon and Marseille via the Azores, on its first regular passenger flight (44 hours).* It was just 20 years to the month since Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic hop. In the seat once reserved for well-loved Will Rogers sat W. J. Eck, assistant vice president of Southern Railway, an engineer whose hobbies are photography and globe-flying and whose name was first of some 300 first-flight applicants...