Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fisher (see p. 11), Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia, Senator-Elect William S. Vare and onetime (1922-27) Senator George Wharton Pepper, Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Railroad Presidents William Wallace Atterbury (Pennsylvania), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio), Patrick Edward Crowley (New York Central), Edward Loomis (Lehigh Valley) ; also Samuel Rea, onetime (1913-25) President of the Pennsylvania R. R., Lawyer Owen J. Roberts of the Government's special Fall-Sinclair prosecution counsel, and those inevitable patrons of all that is important in Philadelphia, Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmer Curtis and his editor...
...nothing that statistics have lately been applied to pedestrians waiting for traffic signals in Times Square in New York. It has been computed that 100,000 days are lost at that point every year, the suggested remedy being an underground passage between Times Square and the Grand Central Station...
Whether or not New York City between Times Square and the Grand Central will lend itself readily to being dug up for such a worthy cause, the statistics offered in the case can do nothing but good. While it might be difficult for each waiting pedestrian to recognize which portion of the 100,000 days is his contribution, he can still be comforted that he is doing his part to make pedestrians into a leisure class. There should be comfort in the thought for the opportunity to have 100,000 days a year to waste is not one that falls...
MIKHAIL IVANOVITCH KALININ, 52, First Chairman of the Union Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party, a position roughly corresponding to the Presidency of the Soviet Union. Born a peasant, Kalinin (Karlee'neen) migrated to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) at the age of 14 to work in a cartridge factory. There he became interested in revolutionary intrigue; imprisonment, banishment repeated themselves, as in the case of most of the revolutionists. Liberated in 1917, he took an active part in the Bolshevist revolution and in 1921 was elected to his present post. He is a small, wiry, typical...
...Hosmer, Yale '25: "Harvard is too split up. There should be a central campus and less individuality in the place...