Word: worked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman will be Frank Warrenner Blair, Union Trust president, onetime drugstore clerk. President will be Robert Owen Lord, head of Guardian Detroit Group. Modest, he gave credit for Guardian Detroit Group's success to his subordinates, described them as "very fine young men who are not afraid of hard work...
...Chemical Foundation, Inc., to which he sold the War-expropriated German chemical patents. Stockholders of the foundation are U. S. chemical concerns which pay it royalties on its patents and which later get back the greater portion of their payments as dividends. The residue goes "for educational research work in chemistry...
From Columbia's muliebral Barnard College last fortnight issued the annual report of famed Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. In part, she observed that it is "practically impossible for all except a very few unusual young women to attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time...
...members of the firm are Christian men of high ideals and deep religious convictions. They believe, as I do, that they are feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick as literally as Christ commanded His followers to do. They consider themselves to be engaged in religious work...
...Wunder, long acquainted with members of the firm, became closely associated with them in the work of financing the Baptist Temple. They discovered that he, aged 36, is a dynamo for work. The Baptist Temple project includes successfully operating a 14-story office building and a commercial restaurant, organizing a community service plan, adding 1,300 new church members. The Sunday congregations, whooped up by advertising, average 3,500, fill the auditorium half an hour before the service. The annual budget of the Temple amounts to $120,000. While Dr. Wunder made no mention of his new salary, congregation members...