Word: osborne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little over a year ago President Henry Fairfield Osborn of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History made dire threats to his directors. He was irked by the annual hat-passing made necessary by the Museum's perennial deficit. If new endowment was not forthcoming, said he, the following would be apt to happen: dismissal of 35 employes, stoppage of support for field expeditions, reduction of publications, suspension of other museum work...
Previous to the opening, considerable resentment was aroused by the fact that Dean Cornwell, famed U. S. illustrator, was being permitted to hang one of a series of Biblical paintings which had appeared, with text by Manhattan Adman Bruce Barton (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), in Good Housekeeping magazine. But those who had objected so noisily to this indignity paid little attention to the bright decorative scene, in which the feet of Jesus were being washed by the tears of a sinner, once it was on view...
National Campaign for a Specific Product ($2,000)-won by Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Corp. (Chicago), for a campaign of Armstrong's Linoleum floors (Armstrong, Cork...
...prize of $2,000 for a national campaign for a specific product was won by Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, Inc., New York. The campaign which they had conducted was that of Armstrong's, Linoleum Floors, a product of the Armstrong Cork Company...
Members of the committee headed by the Prince: Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, Mrs. Delia J. Akeley, big game huntress whose late husband chose King Albert's site in 1920; Stanley Field, President of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale's ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert's 500,000 acres must have...