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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, the Franklin Fourth Street Bank, and the Philadelphia-Girard National Bank are the largest banking institutions. Last week they announced their intention of merging, to form a bank with resources of $350,000,000. "The consolidation will add largely to the financial prestige of the City and State," explained Chairman of the Executive Committee Joseph Wayne Jr. and President Edward F. Shanbacker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mergers, Acquisition | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...things in the aspect of objects about us worth recording--color, form, pattern, and that these can be treated in such a way as to give us pretty paint surfaces, harmonious and sparkling color and agreeable design, things which, hung on the walls of our houses or apartments, may add much to the pleasure of our life. The painter therefor treats his subjects as so much material or motive to be made into a pleasant arrangement, a pretty commentary on the beauty of things. Shadows, for example, are no longer a mere means for the expression of the likeness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR POPE WRITES ON MODERN FRENCH ART IN BOSTON EXHIBITION | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...with joy that he hails those things which add, as it were, the perfume to the flower--music, the theatre. Already we have had the new opera company in our midst for a week and today those who wish to non-operatic music may do so in Paine Hall of the Music Building at 10 o'clock. At that hour, Mr. Raymond Havens will play selections from Schumann the Vagabond, quite a precocious infant, whistled some of his melodies with his first breath Chopin and Liszt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

...continued existence of this trait is seen in a report from Berlin on the thorny path laid out for the diplomats-to-be of the young republic. The German university curriculum is a strenuous enough struggle; but after that, three years of theoretical political studies face the apprentice statesman. Add to this requirement the necessity of completely mastering a minimum of three languages, and of acquiring the sports and social graces of foreign countries; and one sees the same perserverance that has actuated scholars in other fields, like Lippman, whose Entstehung der Alchemie still lulls Harvard's chemists to sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S IN A NAME | 3/17/1928 | See Source »

...CRIMSON cannot see that the rotating policy will add benefits in excess of its disadvantages to Harvard football. Admitting that it may be desirable to have some flexibility in the Harvard schedule, it would seem that the three or four dates supplied under the old system are sufficient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROTATING SCHEDULE | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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