Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dodge, Curator of the Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of the University, has been delegated to obtain additional material for a volume on the lichen flora of Costa Rica and to study type material of lichens in several European herbaria. Dr. Dodge is chairman of the committee on the New England Flora of the Boston Mycological Club, and has published many papers on the subject of lichens...
...Liberia is a large country, ruled by a few thousand Negroes, the descendants of immigrant freedmen from the United States. This handful of Americo-Liberians struggles to maintain a European civilization in the unhealthy lowlands along the coast, and has nominal control over many savage native tribes in the hinterland. The country is completely undeveloped and the outlook from every point of view has been, until very recently, most disheartening...
...self-exploitation nor for profit but as a gesture of international friendliness," there sailed from Manhattan last week on the S.S. Leviathan the sixty members of the Dayton (Ohio) Westminster Choir, for a two-month European tour beginning with seven concerts in England, going then to France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and back through southern Germany, Switzerland and France...
...spent last Christmas with Mrs. Talbott in Dayton. The seven comely daughters were with her last week at the Ritz-Carlton in Manhattan, seeing her off for Europe with the choir she subsidizes. Last summer, she went abroad and arranged the tour herself, soliciting the sponsorship of many a European eminent...
Whatever the means, each and every itinerant President knew the end that great G.M. has in view. While the battle of Fords and Chevrolets begins again at home, Ford has flung down a challenge for European markets as well. Sir Percival Perry, English Ford generalissimo, opened hostilities when he offered especially to English investors shares of the $34,020,000 Ford Motor Co., Ltd. Similar offerings are being made by Ford companies on the Continent. But Great Britain & Ireland are now Ford's key sectors; his Manchester, Cork and Dagenham (capacity 200,000 cars annually; unfinished) plants...