Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich., and Frank W. Stearns, of Boston. C. The President received Barren Collier, Manhattan advertising man. was told that a business survey of 3.500 U. S. communities pointed to a prosperous 1929. ¶The President received President-Elect Herbert Hoover, welcomed him back from South America. What the President said, what the President-Elect said, was not made public. A later conference between outgoing and incoming Administrations was held behind closed doors from which only silence emanated. Correspondents maintained that President and President-Elect had decided that an extra congressional session would certainly be called...
Robert Woods Bliss, socially elect "career man" and U. S. Ambassador to Argentina, was able to set out last week on a vacation which he had been forced to abandon temporarily when President-Elect Herbert Hoover decided to junket around South America (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Originally Mr. Bliss planned to join Mrs. Bliss in Europe; but she has now crossed the Atlantic and the U. S. to California. Therefore, as Ambassador Bliss left Buenos Aires, last week, he headed not for Paris but for San Francisco...
...three events, the opening of West Indies air service was the most important. In many respects, it is more important than U. S. continental services. In this country the railroads supply swift transportation. Among the West Indies and in Central America, relatively slow steamers furnish communication...
...many dealers, my many friends, and my loyal associates," Mr. Durant denied vigorously that the resignation from active management meant giving up financial control of Durant or any other motor company. Dealers, friends, etc., recalled that William Crapo Durant had only recently bought full control of Locomobile Co. of America, that only last week he had bought a large, but not quite controlling interest in Paramount Cab Manufacturing...
Professor Francis B. Sayre L.L.B. '12 of the Law School Faculty will give the first lecture on the subject "America's Outlook in World Affairs". Professor Sayre also headed the program last year when the course was first instituted, when approximately 250 persons were registered in the extension course. The lectures are given once a week...