Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...founder and Commander-in-Chief of the Crusaders, 36-year-old Oilman Fred G. Clark of Cleveland (president, Fred G. Clark Co.), could claim last week a minimum of 100,000 members towards the 1,000,000 set as goal for 1932. If this was not all that had been anticipated, Crusaders took comfort from the thought that five notable young men enthusiastically working in a community are worth 500 zealless ordinary citizens. Notable Crusader Commanders last week included: Charles Hamilton Sabin...
...about 60 less potent journals; for general Negro News, some 110 weekly papers. †But for magazine reading the Negro had to turn to the "white" press until last fortnight when appeared Abbott's Monthly, "A Magazine That's Different." Published in Chicago by Robert Sengstacke Abbott, founder and owner of the Chicago Defender (weekly), Abbott's Monthly from its "pretty girl" cover of yellow, red and lavender to its book review department is a curious mixture of Cosmopolitan, Liberty, American, True Story Magazine, World's Work. Editor Lucius Clinton Harper readily admits it is patterned...
...gone packages of blades, carrying the dollar-proud face of King Camp Gillette. Last week he still had reason to be proud. Gillette Safety Razor Co. is the undisputed world-leader in the industry. But also justifiably proud was another inventor, likewise a razor-maker: Henry Jaques Gaisman, founder and head of AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. Inc. Last week Mr. Gaisman brought to what seemed a triumphant conclusion the corporate battle between his company and mighty Gillette...
President Selig went to law school in Brooklyn, where he was born and raised. But as soon as he was given his degree he decided that law was not for him. At the invitation of Max Epstein, founder (with five tank cars) and at that time president of G. A. T. C., he went to Chicago, started to work riveting under-frames of tank cars. After factory experience, he was transferred through the departments ? purchasing, operation, ac counting ? to learn the business thoroughly. In 1920 he was made assistant to Mr. Epstein, who, upon the ascendancy...
...will of W. A. Purrington '73, a New York lawyer, Harvard will eventually receive $115,000 for medical research. A year before his death, Purrington acquired $150,000 under the will of his friend, Dr. William Carr, founder of the College of Dental Surgery of New York City to be given to institutions after the death of Dr. Carr's widow and sister-in-law. The widow has since died. The remainder of the $150,000 will go to New York institutions...