Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Duke's father, Washington, had owned a tobacco company that his sons James and Benjamin (1855–1929) took over in the 1880s. In 1885, James Buchanan Duke acquired a license to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke supplied 40 percent of the American cigarette market (then known as pre-rolled tobacco).
James B. Duke endowed the foundation on December 11, 1924, with $40 million. In the Indenture of Trust, Duke specified that he wanted the endowment to support Duke University, Davidson College, Furman University, Johnson C. Smith University; non-profit hospitals and children's homes in the two Carolinas; and rural United Methodist churches in North Carolina, retired pastors, and their ...
James B. Duke establishes the $40 million Duke Endowment, propelling the final name change to Duke University 1925 Original campus rebuilt with Georgian style buildings 1930 Majority of construction on the new Gothic Revival-style West Campus is complete 1938 Duke's football team, dubbed the Iron Dukes, dominate their regular season opponents 1942
The Franklin Center is named after Dr. John Hope Franklin, the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History and former professor of Legal History at Duke.An intellectual leader and lifelong civil rights activist, his work has inspired the Center's dedication to creative sharing of ideas and methodologies.
Headline in the Lexington Herald-Leader of December 10, 1907. The Night Riders was the name given by the press to the militant, terrorist faction of tobacco farmers during a popular resistance to the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company (ATC) of James B. Duke.
With law degrees from Syracuse and Harvard Universities, Donald Horowitz earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard. Most of his work has concerned ethnic conflict and accommodation in severely divided societies, based on a combination of extensive field research and wide knowledge of the phenomena in multiple countries, beginning with a long series of stays in Malaysia immediately ...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday demanded that BRICS member countries commit to not creating a new currency or supporting another currency that would replace the United States dollar ...
At Duke University, the title of James B. Duke Distinguished Professor is given to a small number of the faculty with extraordinary records of achievement. At some universities, titles like " distinguished professor ", " institute professor ", or " regents professor " are counterparts of this title.