Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreigners. Not one of these was Mr. Magill, but he had embarrassments of his own. As a special Treasury adviser he had a large hand in making the tax bill of 1934 whose loopholes he is now pointing out. Moreover, before becoming Under Secretary, he was a professor at Columbia University and wrote several learned books on taxation which pointed out the kinds of tax avoidance which were legal, the kinds that were illegal evasions. One speech of his was regarded as such valuable advice on how to save on taxes that Manhattan's Chemical Bank published and circulated...
Under "Scientific Advisory Board," the masthead of Evolution's new issue is adorned with such distinguished names as Anton Julius Carlson ("Grand old man" of physiology at the University of Chicago) and William King Gregory (paleontologist of Columbia University and Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History). Since the last issue in 1932 three valued advisers died: Dr. Elihu Thomson, patriarch of General Electric Co.; Dr. Martin Dewey, onetime president of the American Dental Association, and President Maynard Shipley of the Science League of America. But Editor Katterfeld was happy to announce the acquisition of a new bigwig...
...record peak, has lately been cinema producers' most pressing problem. Last week in Hollywood they found a solution: to represent them as labor arbitrator, the eight major companies included in the Producers Association (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, United Artists, Universal and Columbia) elected Benjamin Bertram Kahane, for the last year right-hand man to Columbia's President Harry Kohn. Bald, hook-nosed Ben Kahane, 45, is a onetime Chicago lawyer who became general counsel for the old Orpheum Circuit, and got into cinema when the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation was formed...
Yale this year has beaten Columbia and Pennsylvania in its first race and Princeton and Cornell in its second, and comparative times show that the Blue is set to give Harvard as much competition as it can handle easily, or uneasily...
Friday, June 18, Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, spoke over the air. On June 1 Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, gave an address on a nationwide hookup...