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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Construction of both buildings will begin within a few months, as soon as detailed plans and specifications are completed. The architects for both buildings are Coolidge, Shepley, Bulifinch, and Abbott, of Boston. Gavin Hadden, of New York, will act as consultant on the planning of the gymnasium...
...need to be afraid that I will sue you for whatever I could sue you. My reputation wasn't so much to begin with, anyhow. But you ought to have a conscience about what you have done to a whole generation of us, if you don't take it back...
After three years with the company, each Joslyn officer and employe, must begin to pay from 2.5% to 5% of his salary into a trust fund to which the company gives not less than 10% of its annual earnings and not more than four times the total contribution from employes. On retiring because of disability or age, Joslyn workers receive the fruits of their savings and the company's profits in a lump sum which often not only provides for them but makes them comparatively rich. The fund now totals $742,600 and payments totaling $266,000 have already...
...nothing more pretentious than a few concerts by New York Philharmonic Symphony men under oldtime Conductor Henry Hadley on the Hanna Farm at Lenox. Last summer, on an estate near Stockbridge, three concerts by the Boston Symphony under Dr. Kaussevitzky netted $1,800, caused organizers of the Festival to begin to talk of "an American Salzburg" and impelled the stately Boston maestro to urge that the number of summer concerts be increased and the Festival obtain a permanent home. Result was that the present owners of Tanglewood, Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan of Brookline, turned their estate...
...success a few zoos have had in keeping them, Dr. Blair decided to let his okapi become accustomed to civilization before moving him. At last, late this May, the Buta okapi boarded a side-wheel steamer at Stanleyville and started down the Congo River. At Leopoldville, where the rapids begin, he was shuttled into a boxcar, and at Matadi, at the mouth of the Congo, on July i went aboard a Dutch ship bound for Antwerp...