Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in Paris, Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lamont agreed with Chairman Owen D. Young of the Radio Corp. of America that it would be pleasant for all concerned if the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. should take over Radio's newborn (TIME, April 1) subsidiary, R.C.A. Communications, Inc. So formal and so important was this friendly agreement that it at once was called an ACCORD. A price was mentioned, around $100,000,000. Vice President David Sarnoff of Radio and Nelson Dean Jay of Morgan's Paris house talked details. U. S. directors of both companies hastily met and approved...
...high table". The social touch in bringing tutor and student to dine in the same room would be little more than that had at a political luncheon in honor of a candidate for office. There the guest of honor sits at a head table and makes a formal speech, but no new personal contacts are formed...
...individual commons apart from the students spells defeat to any objective of bringing both types of men together in an informal, friendly fashion. Where there must be continued visiting back and forth between two common rooms, the line of least resistance can but result in only occasional and formal, contact between tutor and student...
...Formal evening clothes...
...program calls for an informal dance on the evening of Friday, April 12. On the following morning there will be a meeting of the Model Council to discuss the Bolivia-Paraguay question. In the afternoon an Assembly meeting will be held on the subject of disarmament. A formal banquet in the evening will be followed by a feature unprecedented in Model Assemblies--a meeting based on the organization of the International Labor Office at Geneva...