Word: mottes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Harvey Joshua Hill, 51, famed campaign director for the Red Cross; of heart disease; in White Plains, N. Y. He worked with Ivy Ledbetter Lee to raise $123,000,000 and $117,000,000 for Red Cross War funds; with Bruce Barton. Dr. John Raleigh Mott and the late Cardinal Gibbons on a drive for $212,000,000 for the United War Work Appeal...
...Business. So may its executives tend to be dynamic, important personages-in contrast to the London draper who founded the Young Men's Christian Association in 1844. Nothing demonstrates the Y. M. C. A.'s world position today more than the calibre of Dr. John Raleigh Mott, identified with it ever since he became a student secretary in 1888 when he was graduated from Cornell. Dr. Mott resigned last November as "general secretary" of the International Committee (TIME, Nov. 16). Because many Y. M. C. A. leaders are bright, aggressive Northerners, some were surprised to learn last week...
Died. Jordan Lawrence Mott, 74, of Manhattan, onetime president of J. L. Mott Iron Works (now in receivership) ; of heart disease; in Nelson Harbor, Bahama Islands, B. W. L, on board the yacht of his friend Allison Armour...
...little more study of the problems of the world under world-known figures such as John R. Mott, Dr. T. Z. Koo, Kirby Page, and others, would make us citizens of more vision, perhaps, but of less ignorance and lack of interest. Daniel B. Dorman...
Resigning. Dr. John Raleigh Mott, 66; as general secretary of the International Committee of Y. M. C. A.'s of the U. S. and Canada, a position he has held since 1915; to devote more of his time to the World's Alliance of Y. M. C. A.'s, of which he has been president since 1926, and the International Missionary Council (national councils in some 35 countries) of which he is chairman...