Word: devotee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson, executive vice president of Victor Talking Machine Co.; to go camera-hunting in Africa.* Resigned. The Very Rev. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, "to devote himself to preaching and literary work" and also because of much...
It has been my privilege to observe the development by my father's architectural firm of the group plan of several colleges, first on paper, then in reality. Two of these, like Harvard, have had to adjust themselves to existing structures, but have yet succeeded in presenting a symmetrical whole...
The staff have now, after long study, reported a plan for extensive rearrangement of the collection which promises to make it admirably adapted for purposes of promoting research study and teaching. This plan will be based upon a change throughout the Museum from the artistic to a scientific arrangement, and...
By this time I found myself quite ready to sympathize with Dr. Lothrop in his decision that, as a man interested in research work and with another museum urging him to continue in his excellent position with them, he felt unable to devote at least several years to purely administrative...
In April 1927, William Crapo Durant, founder and for two terms controlling power of General Motors, bought advertising space in the daily newspapers, published therein the statement that he had resigned from several directorates to devote his full time and attention to Durant Motors Inc.