Word: movers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern Grasslands Hunt & Racing Foundation bought 15,000 acres of bluegrass land in Tennessee for its members to hunt and race over, it was announced that this was the biggest tract made safe for private chasing since William the Conqueror set aside New Forest (TIME, Jan. 29). Prime mover of the Grasslands project was Joseph Brown ("Joe") Thomas, 51, a hunting gentleman of great determination and self-expression. A major in the War, a mining man by profession, Mr. Thomas has not been happy hunting at Middleburg, Va. and on Long Island. His brusque manners have been interpreted as rudeness...
...insidious and cleverly-written piece of propaganda ever published in behalf of lewdness, promiscuity, adultery and unrestrained sexual gratification" carried him away. The 3500 will continue behaving as well-groomed and decent citizens. The limelight will bestow its honors on everyone connected with the affair, except possibly the Prime Mover for whose worship the Cathedral of St. John the Divine was built...
Although the antimanagement group has been popularly referred to as the Morrow faction, and although able Mr. Morrow's acquisition (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929) of United Cigar Stores gave wide publicity to the Morrow Interests, Edgar Palmer might well have been considered prime mover in the attempt to shift Ward control. Mr. Palmer is the largest individual stockholder not only in Ward but also in Continental and in General Baking. He is said to have some $15,000,000 invested in the bakery business. In 1924, when Ward Class A (voting) stock was selling between...
...social value of the new system as important as its educational advantage. With the new House Plan must come the dissolution of the very definite groups of like-minded young men who have traditionally inhabited Harvard's "Gold Coast" (Mt. Auburn Street). The House Plan, according to its prime mover, was calculated to eliminate cabals brought together by "wealth and origin.".... In spite of the fact that it is contrary to the spirit of the new system, Juniors Barry Wood and Charles Cunningham, room-mates, footballers, hockeyists, demanded that they be allowed to move into Lowell House with...
...Soak), Eugene Field (newspaper colyumist, Poems of Childhood). Her two alumni presidents are journalists?President Britt and Dr. John Huston Finley (president 1892-99), now " editor emeritus" of the New York Times. Oldest living graduate (1859) is Ellen Browning Scripps, sister of Edward Wyllis Scripps and a prime mover in the early days of Scripps-Howard journalism. In the class of 1882 were Samuel Sidney McClure, founder of McClure Syndicate, and John Sanburn Phillips, director of Crowell Publishing Co. Other famed alumni, living and dead, include: Thomas W. Goodspeed (1859), a refounder of the University of Chicago; Nelson Dean...