Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio State Senate where he has served two consecutive terms. He was recently elected to a third, and during the coming session of 1927 will serve as Floor Leader. Since the War, he has been closely identified with the American Legion organization. At the time of the Harvard Endowment drive he was appointed a member of the committee representing the northeastern part of Ohio...
...church will stand at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street.* Its tower will be 375 feet high. It will cost $4,000,000. Charles Collens and Henry Pelton are the architects. The inside will be Romanesque, the outside Gothic. Elevators will run up through 20 stories of women's rooms, sewing-rooms, lecture-rooms, schoolrooms, offices in the tower; stairs will go down to robing-rooms, Sunday school rooms, choir-rooms, locker-rooms, kitchens in the basement. There will be bolwing alleys and a basketball court - details which and do not reflect Dr. Fosdick, but are a counterpart...
...Equipped with crackers, a bottle of milk and a play for reading, I was speeding in my limousine down Manhattan's Riverside Drive in the small hours of New Year's Eve last week. Biff, crack, splinter-clatter-the glass of the windows broke about me as another car, revelers within, ran head on into mine. Five stitches had to be taken in my eyelid, and my head is bandaged over other cuts. The New York Herald-Tribune, perhaps to increase sympathy, reported me as 'in the seventies...
...smart, shrewd Phi Beta Kappan has before this undertaken tutoring as a private enterprise. Never before has a chapter of the national hierarchy of scholarship lent its official seal. The new departure was presumably an evidence of Phi Beta Kappa's intention, announced during its recent endowment drive, to take an active part in U. S. education...
...young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses Ely had founded their school, to accommodate the daughters of once-fashionable Brooklyn, N. Y. With the shift of social tides, the Misses Ely-Elizabeth, Sara and Mary Boies (deceased)- had removed to Riverside Drive, Manhattan. Jews had encroached, apartment houses had towered. In 1906 the school had migrated to its final resting place on a green Connecticut hilltop. Now it lay in ashes, the ashes of $1,500,000, of which only a $500.000 phoenix would arise in insurance. Parents with daughters in need...