Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chance that universities select the heads of their boards of trustees and the chairmen of their endowment-raising committees. It is not by chance that Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, now fills those two positions at Johns Hopkins University exactly as Howard Elliott, chairman of the Northern Pacific Railroad, fills them at Harvard University...
...Howard Elliott, president of the Harvard Overseers and of the lately-created Harvard Fund Council-not a "drive" organization but a permanent institution through which Harvard alumni will contribute annually in small amounts to the university's development and support- is a railroader of the same gauge, action, power. His career, except for an engineering course at Harvard, parallels Mr. Willard's closely-a New England parentage, ground-training in the Midwest, the presidency of the Northern Pacific at 42 (1903). In 1913 he accepted the task of rehabilitating the New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...follows: April 19, Buffalo; April 20, Detroit; April 21, Cleveland; April 22, Pittsburg; April 23, New York. Following the show in New York there will be dancing and a cabaret show which will include vaudeville acts by former Hasty Pudding stars, prominent among whom will be Howard Elliott Jr. '22, J. S. Moynahan '24, and J. N. Alger...
When asked what he thought the immediate aims of Italian imperialism were. Professor Elliott said, "Although I can make no more than a guess on this subject, I should say that, in the first place, the Italians are trying to dominate South American ports and commerce in much the same way that the Germans did before the war. Then I think they have their eyes fixed on Turkey, whose bones they would undoubtedly like to pick. If further trouble comes up between the nations of Western Europe and Turkey, the League will be very likely to call on Italy...
Speaking of the effects the Fascist influence has had in this country, Professor Elliott said that it had resulted in splitting the Italians here into two distinct groups, the Fascisti and Anti-Fascisti. While the express purpose of Fascism in the United States is to keep down the Red element among the Italians, its control has become of doubtful value...