Word: creator
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This will not be just another survey." Last week the new commission, made up of President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, onetime President Henry Ingraham Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Novelist Dorothy Canneld Fisher, Newton Diehl Baker and ten others, met with its creator. For it Dr. Zook had two presents which gave his boast solid foundation. One was an $800,000 bankroll, put up by the (Rockefeller-endowed) General Education Board. The other was President Homer Price Rainey of Bucknell University, whom the commission elected as its di rector. Dr. Rainey promptly resigned...
...opinion of the Herald-Dispatch, the creator of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie has violated his sacred reader trust. ... In the latest instance, all political leaders, and it follows every public official, are at once indicted as 'crooks' and to accept such a sweeping indictment is to permit the creator of Little Orphan Annie and . . . the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, to attack and condemn all persons, all institutions, and all ideas save those they choose to label acceptable...
Died. Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, 75, "Burbank of Russia," creator of 300 new varieties of plants; of stomach cancer; in Michurinsk, whither Dictator Stalin had dispatched his best physicians. Ignored by the Tsarist Government but encouraged by Lenin, Michurin was given 20,000 acres, was credited with developing a blend of apple & cherry, a hybrid watermelon-cantaloupe, a lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract (TIME...
...Rohmer, creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, arrived aboard the Berengaria to find a suitable demagog for Dr. Fu to utilize in setting up a U. S. dictatorship. Answered cautious British Author Rohmer to newshawks' queries: "What demagog? Ah, that I don't know yet.. I'm going down to Washington to get to know your demagogs before I pick...
...history of the turbulent period, including the Ten Days, from the fall of the Romanov Dynasty in March 1917, to the introduction of the New Economic Policy in March 1921. Neither brief nor pro-Bolshevik, Author Chamberlin's two-volume The Russian Revolution will probably not win its creator burial in the Kremlin, is nevertheless the clearest and most detailed account of "the greatest social revolutionary movement in history" yet offered U. S. readers. Written in a methodical narrative style, with patient concentration on day-to-day, almost hour-to-hour shifts in the forces favoring or opposing...