Word: centering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a troupe billed as Big Apple champions from the South appeared in Manhattan at the Roxy Theatre. The swank Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Center unbent to stage Big Apple exhibitions under the direction of Dancing Teacher...
...Foundation's able new President Raymond Elaine Fosdick. Last week this review was included in a full annual report, detailing all the ultimate capillary destinations of the flow of gold which last year poured from the heart of the Rockefeller philanthropic empire in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center-much but by no means all of it under the eye of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., chairman of the Foundation's board of trustees. The following is a sample- very far short of a comprehensive list- of what Rockefeller money bought...
...first year as the Foundation's president saw no sensational shifts of Rockefeller procedure but a continuation and broadening of traditional policy. His administration was proving quite satisfactory to his trustees and there was a note of crispness and dispatch in the Rockefeller Center offices which would have gladdened the Baptist heart of old John D. Sr., who died during Mr. Fosdick's first year...
When the Houses went into operation the center of Harvard life for the upperclassman shifted unmistakably from the Yard to the region beside the Charles...
...many respects the Union, situated on Quincy Street just outside of the Yard, is the center of first-year life. Under one roof are the dining hall, common rooms, game rooms, rooms for informal language study, and two libraries, one containing a fine collection of books for general reading, the other texts required in History 1 and Government 1, two of the larger courses...