Word: custodian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal, few have shone more wonderfully than baldish, hairy-handed, big-talking Major George L. Berry. Since 1933 he has been a member o. the NRA's Labor Advisory Board of Cotton Textile and the NRA's Mediation Board for Steel & Coal, divisional NRA administrator, custodian of the NRA's bones after its demise, Co- ordinator for Industrial Cooperation, chairman of John L. Lewis' pro-Roosevelt Labor's Non-Partisan League, and finally junior U. S. Senator from Tennessee. Last week New Dealer Berry was engaged in giving the coattails that carried him to eminence...
Died. Francis Patrick Garvan, 62, one-time U. S. Alien Property Custodian, founder (1919) of Chemical Foundation. Inc., which gained control of the U. S. post-War chemistry by paying the Government $271,850 for seized German chemical and dye patents; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Racing for the America's Cup starts with a challenge to the New York Yacht Club, custodian of yachting's No. 1 trophy since 1857. It continues, when the challenge is accepted, with trials to select a defender. For the past month, in light, warm winds, three candidates for the honor of defending the America's Cup raced each other day after day on the sparkling summer ocean off Newport, R. I. They were Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, Chandler Hovey's Rainbow and Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's new Ranger. Last week, the trials...
...specimen of the world's largest known flower last week bloomed in the U. S. for the first time. Custodian of this prodigy, whose scientific name is Amorphophallus titanum and which is called krubi by the islanders of its native Sumatra, was the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx. Only five times before had Amorphophallus titanum bloomed outside the Sumatra jungle-twice in London's Kew Gardens, once in Holland, once in Germany, once in a botanical garden in Java. During last week's excitement Assistant Curator Wendell Holmes Camp observed that The Bronx...
Morgan Library. The Italianate white marble building that the elder J.P. Morgan built to house his treasures became a public trust in 1924. Polite persistence by any visitor will win a free pass from Custodian Belle da Costa Greene to see. besides the books, numerous paintings, prints and drawings that can still hold their own with any of the great U. S. collections, despite numerous sales and gifts to other museums...