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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objection. The committee regrets changes in the Yard The policy of preserving architectural nightmares because of some sentimental tradition has developed in this country into pure fetishism. States, cities, and institutions alike meet it. If the beauty of buildings that could be designed to supplant Matthew, Weld, Boylston, Emerson, etc., is not sufficiently justification of the destruction of the monstrosities, why not have the Engineering School build the future Harvard? They might do a good job. If the Yard is to be kept in its primeval state, why not tear everything out except Holden, Harvard, Massachusetts, and University, restoring...
Governor Henry Simpson Johnston of Oklahoma, who used to lecture on the religious aspects of the Ku Klux Klan, is a profound student of ritualism, spiritualism, occultism, etc. One day he found a Mrs. 0. 0. Hammonds, who could plumb the depths of Rosicrucian* philosophy, with him. Together they plumbed (TIME, March...
Round 6. Securely tucked in many a vault, seldom touched and earning quietly, are large blocks of Standard Oil of Indiana stock?the property of families of early Standard Oil partners, Harkness, Pratt, Brewster, Payne, Flagler, Rogers, etc. On these, Mr. Rockefeller Jr. confidently counts for support. S. H. B. Payne, however, came out for Col. Stewart. The Payne Whitney and Pratt estates remained doubtful, last week. The University of Chicago (object of many Rockefeller benefactions) was expected to use its 30,000 shares for the-good-of-the-family...
...pamphlet-message "to my many dealers, my many friends, and my loyal associates," Mr. Durant denied vigorously that the resignation from active management meant giving up financial control of Durant or any other motor company. Dealers, friends, etc., recalled that William Crapo Durant had only recently bought full control of Locomobile Co. of America, that only last week he had bought a large, but not quite controlling interest in Paramount Cab Manufacturing...
...grave of her son; Nov. 1919?to Brazil; Jan. 1922?Antwerp, thence to South Africa; Dec. 1923?World Tour. (New York. Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Naples and home); Dec. 1924?Cuba: May 1925?Italy; Jan. 1926?Yucatan (to study Mayans); Jan. 1927?South America (Bolivia, Montevideo, Argentina, etc.); Jan. 1928? Panama. Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala; Aug. 1928 ?Europe; Jan. 1929?Switzerland...