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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic, i. e., the prime minister of Central Russia, though he still remained Chairman of the Council of the People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, i. e., the prime minister of all the Russias. Cergy Ivanovich Syrzow, a close friend of Dictator Stalin, succeeded to the first title. The suggestion was obvious to the most obtuse that further reactionary moves on the part of Comrade Rykov would find Comrade Syrzow prepared to undertake the other chairmanship as well...
...fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Radcliffe which is being celebrated this week marks the close of a half century of intelligent progess in the education of women. Starting from obscure beginnings and having as assets only the ideals and hopes of its initiators, Radcliffe weathered a long period of financial worries, at last to emerge into an era of large endowments and prosperity. No college for men or women in the country can today boast of higher standards of scholarship and attainment than can Radcliffe...
...chief speakers for the occasion will be President M. E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College, Professor A. N. Whitehead of the Department of Philosophy, and President Lowell. Bishop W. J. Lawrence will give the introduction and the benediction at the close of the ceremony. The Alumni dinner June 1 will bring the semi-centennial celebration to a close, upon which occasion speeches will be given by members of Radcliffe's first graduating class, that...
Perhaps it was good statesmanship for Herr Schacht to attempt to postpone the close of the conference until after the British elections. He is not to be blamed for the too early convocation of the committee. But confidence throughout Europe has received a great blow from the dilatory tactics of the Germans. The task of the Germans in trying to satisfy a divided public at home is not made easier by the division among the Allies themselves, and the uibbling over minutiae which has made this conference so different from the meetings of the Dawes Committee...
...true. Mr. Smith was inside, sitting on the right of Professor Felix Frankfurter, famed Harvard Law School liberal and Sacco-Vanzetti defender. Close by sat Professor Francis B. Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law. Mr. Smith talked for two hours on Water Power, municipal v. private operation, from his long experience of it in New York. Utmost secrecy attended the dinner. Newsgatherers, as such, are never allowed in the Union Club. Nevertheless, when Mr. Smith found the Press was present, he said: "You've got to give the boys the news...