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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain kind of news is called "American." Admittedly the foremost "American" editor in London is Mr. Ralph D. ("Blum") Blumenfeld of the London Daily Express. Operated by one Dave Blumenfeld, son of Ralph, is the London Feature Service. Last week this enterprising bureau cabled to the U. S. a story "not to be reproduced in the British Isles." Apparently Canadians were considered sufficiently "American" to enjoy what followed...
South America has no endowed school for the teaching of general aeronautics. With the poor development of land transportation, there is a great opportunity for planes to carry passengers, mail and express over the greater part of the continent. This enterprising air transport companies are beginning to do-largely with planes bought in Europe...
...Ingersoll Lectureship was established in 1894 by Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, who left funds for the establishment of an annual lecture on the subject of the Immortality of Man. The lectureship is awarded by the Corporation in accordance with the express wish of the donor that it should not be made a part of the regular curriculum offered by the University, and should not be delivered by any professor or tutor in his usual routine of instruction. The choice of the lecturer is not limited to any one religious denomination or to any profession...
...Hoyt (Hayden, Stone & Co.), Charles E. Mitchell and Gordon S. Rentschler (National City Bank, Manhattan). Jansen Noyes (Hemphill. Noyes & Co.). James C. Willson (Louisville), Thomas N. Dysart (Knight, Dysart & Gamble, St. Louis), Clement Melville Keys (Manhattan). He had watched recent mergers in the industry: Fokker and Western Air Express. Transcontinental Air Transport. Curtiss Corporations and Sikorsky. Keystone and Loening, Pratt and Whitney. Boeing and Niles, Bement and Pond...
...announcement in Friday's CRIMSON to the effect that the Class of 1930 will soon have an opportunity to express an opinion on the feasibility of a Class Dance has come to my attention...