Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Guggenheim interest dominant. Thus from the offices of Guggenheim Bros., at No. 120 Broadway, may come direction of the last battle to save Chile's nitrate industry. No one Guggenheim brother is likely to be sole field general in the battle. Seven sons had old Meyer Guggenheim, the founder of the house, and four still share one common office, sometimes called the world's copper capital. Here is the venerable Simon, now president of American Smelting & Refining Co.; Daniel, the philanthropist; Murry, the shrewdest financial mind of the four and an expert on copper prices; Solomon, sportsman, cosmopolite...
whose striking political philosophizing earned the praise of Liberals everywhere. Backed by the Straights (Mrs. Straight was also a founder of the Junior League), Mr. Croly began editing The New Repub lic in November 1914. Its appeal was almost immediate. To. enlightened young men emerging from college, unwilling to immerse themselves entirely in their professions or industries, it offered repeated, cultivated doses of broadmindedness, enquired with dignified persistence into the affairs of the Commonwealth. In the editorial office sat "H. C.." smoking incessantly, speaking in a voice scarcely above a whisper, writing with the great caution and difficulty...
Down Chicago's unsavory South Halsted Street one afternoon last week went citizens of high and low degree: clumpy immigrant folk, soiled and happy children, dowagers in their motors. They were all going to Hull-House to celebrate what Founder Jane Addams called the institution's "twice twentieth anniversary" (actually the 41st) and also to signalize Founder Addams' 70th year...
Although nominally a gala occasion, the business of Hull-House continued uninterrupted. Before an audience of social-workers and socialites in Bowen Hall, Mary E. McDowell, director of the University of Chicago Settlement, was telling of old days at Hull-House, showering the founder with graceful praise which was received with terse, straight-faced nods of the head...
...Proud is Founder Addams of the distinguished roll of people who have served in residence at the institution, among them: Prime Minister William. Lyon MacKenzie King of Canada; President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co., who met his wife (Mary Dayton Hill) at Hull-House; Vice President B. E. Hutchinson of Chrysler Corp.; President Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Editor Paul Underwood Kellogg of The Survey; Editor William Ludlow Chenery of Cottier's Weekly; Julia Clifford Lathrop, first chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau; Editor Harriet Monroe of Poetry...