Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dearborn, Mich, last week Henry Ford, Irenee du Pont, Francis Patrick Garvan and 200 tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists assembled for a big charade. Mr. Garvan, president of the Chemical Foundation, led the enthusiasts into Mr. Ford's reproduction of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. There, on a table from Abraham Lincoln's law office and after the Fordson High School band played "Stars & Stripes Forever" and Handel's "Largo," Mr. Garvan solemnly wrote his name at the end of a lengthy Declaration of Dependence Upon the Soil and of the Right of Self...
...younger graduates may yet do it as much honor as the old Yankees. The College Entrance Examination Board is never surprised when Boston Latin boys top all other U. S. students in Latin, Greek, mathematics. At Harvard they regularly form the biggest and smartest bloc of students. Joseph Patrick Kennedy (1908) is now chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission and many an-other bright Latin School graduate has found his way to Washington...
Composer George Gershwin was one of the first skeptical listeners but he signed the first sale order. Honest Fritz Reiner, Philadelphia's opera conductor, spoke praisingly at the first demonstration. Soloist was Organist Pietro Yon of St. Patrick's Cathedral (TIME, May 7, 1934). Under his command, the new instrument seemed capable of a thousand effects. It was full-toned and rich, eerie and soft. In a modern pipe organ, similar sounds depend on electric blowers. A separate pipe is required for each separate tone. Mechanism of the new instrument is all in the console...
...Patrick Campbell, superintendent of schools, who will preside, will introduce as speakers President Lowell, Governor Curley, and Payson Smith, commissioner of education. Robert M. Greene, author of "Ad Scholam Matrem," will lead the exercises in the program at Symphony Hall. Henry M. Rogers, Boston Latin School '58, and Harvard '62, who is the oldest living graduate of each institution, will attend the exercises...
Most bankers would give credit for the current flood of corporate refunding, not to the Treasury, but to Chairman Joseph Patrick ("Joe") Kennedy of the Securities & Exchange Commission. It was his new simplified registration form for old, established companies that tempted bankers and their clients to risk operations under the Securities...