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...there began last week a great movement to bring U. S. Radio to cultural maturity. In Manhattan's New School for Social Research met the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education, which in April announced its program, to be financed for the next three years by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and the Carnegie Corporation (TIME, April 13). Sitting in the New School's oval auditorium, the council heard broadcast from the White House the voice of President Hoover, introducing to them the voice of their president, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, director of the California Institute of Technology...
...John Davison Rockefeller was elected "Knight of the Kingdom of God" for his "distinguished service to humanity," by Euclid Ave. Baptist Church, Cleveland, on the 100th anniversary of the Cleveland Baptist Association fortnight...
Died. Edward Thomas Bedford, 82, president of Corn Products Refining Co., oldtime associate of Oilmen John Davison Rockefeller, Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers and Charles Pratt; of heart dis ease; in Green Farms, Conn...
...customary the Club will be directed by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, and after the regular program there will be informal singing of College songs in which participation by all members of the University is invited...
...Barrymore, and many a musician attended her formal, wineless soirees. By 1913 she was helping organize the historic exhibition in Manhattan's Squadron "A" Armory which introduced a continent to Modernism. One of the earliest collectors of modern paintings, in 1929 she was co-founder (with Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller and Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan) of the Museum of Modern Art, to which she bequeathed almost all that she had bought, pruned, guarded. A loan exhibition of her good friend and adviser Artist Davies hung beside her bequests last week. Critics agreed that the Bliss Collection has now made...