Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Directors of the State Bank of Chicago, faced with the decision either to remain a parochial institution or to become a diocese, even a metropolitan power, decided last week. They chose Ralph Van Vechten (brother of Author Carl Van Vetchen) their president...
Banker Van Vetchen, born in Michigan but reared in Iowa, once wished to be an author himself. But he was detoured from his yearnings by getting a job in a bank. The dignity from which he is now taken was the senior vice presidency of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, whose only rival for the rank of greatest Chicago bank is the Illinois Merchants Trust...
...Norris philosophically decided at the close of the last Congress that the details involved with the chairmanship of the Senate Agriculture Committee were irritating and asked to be relieved of that responsibility, though he would continue as a member. In all probability he will be succeeded by Senator McNary, author of the wrecked and wrecking farm relief bill...
...philosophers with faith in democracy. Pedagogy is his prime interest and he seeks to introduce the experimental methods of the laboratory to social and political science. He is a Darwinian evolutionist, stressing growth as the hopeful fact of life, utility as the guiding fact. He is greatly admired by Author Durant (1885-), director of the Labor Temple School, Manhattan. Dr. Durant gives the impression of valuing philosophy, "that dear delight" of Plato, not primarily for the intellectual ecstasies to be experienced in examining noble works of the human mind (though these ecstasies are well known...
...Senator Capper is the author of more bills that he hasn't read than any other member of this body," bellowed Mr. Norris...