Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Killed. Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., graduate of Princeton last June, son of the board chairman of Remington Arms Co., great-grandson of its founder Marcellus Hartley, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; when a motor which he was driving struck a tree on the Bayonne- Bordeaux road in France where Dodge had been sent by his mother for diversion from aviation, which she considered a dangerous hobby...
...principals are F. Gardner Clough, Hervey White & friends v. Woodstock's Respectables (local residents who are not artists, who frown on Art). Chief enemy of the Respectables is Clough, for though White was founder of the colony and instigator of the Maverick Festival, Clough's press and marital activities have drawn most venom from churchgoing Woodstock merchants. He is editor of the Woodstock bulletin, a journal of Woodstock's art votaries,? therefore chief spokesman and defender of the colonists against "the hypocritical piety of Christians." When, at the 1929 Maverick an anonymous fiat from a "Committee of Fifty" warned...
Died. Dr. Asa Barnes Davis, 68, famed gynecologist and obstetrical surgeon, for twelve years chief of staff of Manhattan's Lying-in Hospital, a founder of the American College of Surgeons; of angina pectoris, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan...
Died. Crowell Hadden, 89, board chairman of Brooklyn Savings Bank, father of President Howard Hadden of Dorland Advertising Agency (Manhattan), grandfather of the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; after a three-week illness, in Brooklyn...
...Kansas City Star itself is its reputation for taboos. Its late great founder William Rockhill Nelson 50 years ago kept a list of persons who must not be mentioned in the Star's columns. Moreover, Colonel Nelson being portly, no Star cartoonist dared caricature a fat man. The present-day taboo of the Star and its morning running-mate, the Times, is less explicable, more picturesque. For reasons of his own Publisher George Baker Longan will not permit snakes to be pictured or mentioned...