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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition of any interpretive or qualifying resolution, together with pacifist activities which linked the passage of the treaty with the defeat of the penning Cruiser Bill, made treaty opponents More than ever determined to put on record the Senate's understanding of various treaty provisos. Toward the close of the week Senator Bingham of Connecticut announced that he had circulated a round robin to which he had secured 20 signatures of Senators pledging themselves to oppose the unqualified passage of the treaty. The Senator claimed that he could get 12 more votes for interpretation, or just enough to prevent...
...President Osborn declared that he was going to stop it. He needed $8,000,000 more endowment. If he did not get it, forthwith he would dismiss 35 employes, suspend others, set a stationary wage scale, cut off trustee support of field expeditions, reduce the number of publications, and close down many other museum activities. Such cessations would strangle educational and scientific work of one of the world's best natural history museums. It was a lugubrious threat. But the trustees admonished President Osborn to make himself content for a further while. They would...
...Henry Davis had recently been chosen a director. Accordingly, at the end of the week, President & Chairman Charles B. Seger resigned. To his office was elected F. B. Davis Jr., President of du Pont Viscoloid Co. The change meant that the du Fonts had full control; it presaged a close alliance between General Motors Corp. (25% du Pont) and U. S. Rubber, onetime "biggest" manufacturer of rubber products...
...large sum of money" had been refused, that the cost of the venture had been $63,000. He sketched briefly the history of Panorama; it opened at 25¢ a copy in October, dropped to 15¢ in November. Advertising rates picked up slowly. Its circulation was 7,000 at the close. Said Editor Mayer: "Panorama is not yet dead...
...Episcopal family skeleton last week. All the famed trustees* of the cathedral held their backs to the door and feigned guileless smiles, but the hollow knock of femur and tibia was audible to many observers, and while the skeleton clanked, a lone goat roamed disconsolately out of the cathedral close into the wide, wide world, and that was young Rev. Joseph B. Bernardin, who, until last week, was assistant to the cathedral's dean and instructor in the choir school...