Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand it is the belief of University officials that to admit Radcliffe girls would raise the whole question of coeducation in the Graduate Schools, and for this reason they oppose their inclusions, it was declared. "The University has been exceedingly generous, and I believe the welfare of the whole cooperative is more important than any single issue," Spencer Thompson, 2G, said...
...administration building. Absent was George A. McAneny, the Fair's first promoter who was demoted to chairman of the Fair corporation board to make way for President Whalen. Present was a tall, shy, greying civil engineer named Joseph F. Shadgen. By proxy Mr. McAneny had to admit that Engineer Shadgen was really the man who "originated" the Fair on its site in the Flushing, L. I. salt marshes. He it was who, after nine months of study, first went to Mr. McAneny through Edward F. ("Eddy") Roosevelt (a distant, cosmopolite cousin) with plans for reclaiming the land, pumping...
...present business era can admit that the last one produced a hero, John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937) certainly was it. Last week came the last accounting of this unique figure, the filing of the tax appraisal on his estate...
...banking houses were ready to lend to help the Jews get started there, in Ethiopia or elsewhere, and they wanted U. S. bankers to chip in. The U. S. Department of Labor was considering the possibility of hypothecating its German-Austrian immigration quota for the next three years to admit up to 81,000 refugees into the country. Secretary of the Interior Ickes suggested that as his Matanuska colony of dust-bowl refugees grew, it would open up a frontier where Jewish professional people would be needed and welcome. This was long-range stuff, however, and the Secretary was emphatic...
George Washington Hill gives little or no damn whether he gets publicity or whether he doesn't. He knows he is good, doesn't have to be told so, is ready to admit it when asked. His itemized admission of his talent for spectacular advertising- as told in court and revealed by Printers' Ink-last month helped to win a $500,000 law suit. One Arthur R. Griswold had had the impertinence to suggest that Mr. Hill's company had stolen an idea for advertising Lucky Strikes...