Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Zealous young businessmen can get out and raise money for a Cause, but they seldom can spare the time from their pleasures and occupations to carry on the great work themselves. Founder and commander-in-chief of the Crusaders, year-old anti-Prohibition organization, is Fred...
Birthdays. Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, 78, first U. S. physicist to win the Nobel Prize, longtime head of University of Chicago's physics department; Henrietta Szold, 70, founder of Hadassah (women's Zionist organization); Princess Hermine, 43, wife of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern; King Alexander I of Jugoslavia...
...Author. John Donald Wade, a Georgian, is descended from "a long line of vigorous Methodists." In his life of Methodism's founder he has not so much bitten the hand that fed him as examined it coolly, skeptically. Member of the faculty of Vanderbilt University, he is also an assistant editor of the Dictionary of American Biography, is regarded by fellow-Southerners as one of the coming men in a possible Southern literary renaissance...
...founder of the American Legion in Los Angeles has announced that Professor Albert Einstein should be kept from the pristine shore of California on the grounds that he is a purveyor of scientific fifth and falsehood. Dr. A. B. Houghton, of the American Legion in examining the theory of relativity finds that it is really not worth serious consideration, but Herr Einstein's remarks on militant pacificism were beyond the bounds of democratic decency...
...been bought by the Democratic Enquirer, its dominant and sole rival in the morning field. To the casual reader of the announcement the "purchase" might have been effected the day before. Actually it took place in 1911 when a representative of the late famed John R. McLean, founder and publisher of the Enquirer, paid $420,000 at private auction for the limping Commercial Tribune. For two decades the McLean interests operated both papers, strategically covering the adherents of both major parties. Also there was another, probably stronger motive for keeping the Commercial Tribune alive: its presence served to protect...