Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Died. David Nehemiah Mosessohn, 47, editor and co-founder (1902, with his brother Moses Dayyan Mosessohn) of The Jewish Tribune, founder (1919) and executive chairman of Associated Dress Industries of America, appointed last year to the Hoover Business Commission; of arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan...
Unusual as was the inclusion of small stockholders in a big official pool, yet more unusual was the explanatory interview given by Amadeo Peter Giannini, founder of Bank of Italy whence sprang Transamerica. He said, startlingly, that the syndicate should give protection ". . . against such drives ... as have been experienced since the middle of the year 1928, at which time and since a certain California competitor has been a most active participant in the group conducting the market operations. . . . May I urge . . . stockholders to put up a united front against the enemy...
Edwin Sibley Webster, co-founder of Stone & Webster, Inc., resigned as president, became vice chairman of the Board. He was succeeded by George O. Muhlfeld, previously vice president...
...have been hanged for murder and Sophocles for incest. Poetry is the spiritual enjoyment of what one understands. I wrote my tale of the Fox because I felt deeply the beauty and the life of hunting." Editor-Sportsman A. Henry Higginson, son of the late Tycoon Henry Lee Higginson (founder of Boston's famed Lee, Higginson & Co.) is a U. S. citizen and owns a large place in South Lincoln, Mass., but shares the Mastership of the Cattistock Hunt with Parson Milne. He is at present the only U. S. Master of an English hunt. A fox-hunting enthusiast...
...told in smoking-rooms. When one of the others would tell a "good one" which the stocky man by chance did not already know, the stocky man promptly filed it in his inexhaustible mental library. His interest was professional, not queasy, for he was Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett, founder and publisher of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. He and his wife .Annette were bound for Manila, thence for Australia and New Zealand, China and Japan in quest of big game. That they can and do often make such trips is testimony to the rich success of Publisher Fawcett...