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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business was founded in April 1869, by Francis Wayland Ayer who gave it his father's name, possibly as a personal tribute to his father, possibly because he himself barely turned 21, had less than a year's experience in business, and may have feared that his youth would count against him when he solicited business from Philadelphia merchants. The father had agreed to join the firm as soon as his duties as teacher in a "female seminary" terminated in the following June. From June 1869 until his death in 1873, N. W. Ayers gave as much time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Stevenson Rebutted | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Barney Glasgow to count the gains and losses of this move. The final audit comes when, the richest man in the State, he discovers in the old Swede's daughter the image of his old flame. Barney showers benefits on the family. His efforts to renew his youth by making the young girl his mistress are frustrated by her romance with his son (Joel McCrea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...spite of is youth, the Club showed signs of influence last spring when, at its instigation, a bill was nearly passed providing for a special issue of stamps in commemoration of Harvard's Tercentenary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stamp Club Begins Its Third Season at Meeting in Union | 11/13/1936 | See Source »

...first meeting of the recently formed Youth Hostel Association, Chairman George S. Viereck, Jr. '39 greeted the twenty odd new members, announcing that the purpose of the club is to promote interest in the Youth Hostel movement in this country. European countries have done much to encourage this type of organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Youth Hostel Meeting | 11/10/1936 | See Source »

Bikers, hikers, foreign and domestic travellers are invited to attend a meeting of the Youth Hostel Club in Kirkland J-42 at 8 o'clock tonight. Harvard members and Harvard men who wish to join will attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Youth Hostel Club | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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