Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will introduce Mr. Malcolm Donald '99, a man prominent and active in his class who will talk of the importance to the College, to the class, and to the individual, of the class gift. Following Mr. Donald, the second speaker will be Corliss Lamont '24, who will have direct charge of the drive in his capacity as Class Treasurer and ex-officio chairman of the Class Fund Committee. He will give definite detailed plans of the campaign and of the workings of the endowment insurance plan...
...nothing particularly novel or surprising in this disclosure. Not only in France, but in other Continental countries, the relation of most newspapers to their Government, and to the Governments of foreign nations, has been different from anything known in the United States or in England. Sometimes subsidies are given direct. More often journalists have secretly been in receipt of money in return for their supposed influence. The system has been long established and perfectly familiar, but is none the less utterly reprehensible. There is no excuse for it. It brings journalism under suspicion and reproach. It will be a happy...
...Monge Aircraft Co. (Paris) is building a new type of airplane for a flight next Spring direct to New York-mainly to advertise the progress of French aviation. Technical reports speak of a number of interesting features. The wing tapers from root to tip and has no external bracing. At its center it is seven feet deep, and contains within its cantilever structure the engines, the fuel tanks and the pilot's cockpit. Once the machine has left the ground, the landing gear itself disappears within the wing. In flight nothing will be seen but a vast wing...
...devised a way to give the American people an opportunity to express its opinion on the general subject of international relationship, disembarrassed by any other issues. "The American Peace Award" he merely declares "has offered the American people a means of getting its voice to the Government; a direct open way to Washington, as so many termed...
...years, and the class fund would be a burden to him if the policies were payable to him. To save him trouble, time and criticism--which is unavoidable for a man in charge of a trust fund--it is far better for the policies to be made payable direct to the University, which will then establish a special investment account for that purpose...