Word: franks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professorship recently established at Oxford by George Eastman of Rochester, New York. He was elected by a committee composed of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, the Master of Balliol College, the Warden of New College, and two representatives of the Rhodes trustees, one of whom is Frank Aydejotte, president of Swarthmore College...
Swarthmore, Pa., Oct. 30-John Livingston Lowes Ph.D. '05 professor of English at Harvard will be the first George Eastman Visiting Professor to the University of Oxford, it was announced here today by Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College and American secretary to the Rhodes trustees. Professor Lowes will lecture at Oxford during the academic year 1930-31. His appointment was officially announced in the Oxford Gazette today...
...which still helped him approach Democratic Senators. Lobbyist Burgess had requested the dismissal of Mr. Koch because, he explained, he had put the pottery industry in "the wrong light" before the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Koch was not dismissed, though potters carried their complaints even to President Hoover. Sugar. Frank were the avowals of Harry A. Austin, secretary-treasurer of the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, of his efforts to obtain a higher tariff on sugar as a protection to the domestic industry. He told investigators that his headquarters had spent $500,000 in seven years to "educate" the public...
...sure that she will demonstrate the sympathy the sentiment and artistic capacity of the Cuban people." But unfortunately Soprano Otero was unequal to the occasion. Her pleasing, natural tone could not offset faulty breathing. Once her over-taxed voice ran down like a forgotten phonograph. Accompanist Frank La Forge tried to save the situation with a skillfully improvised finale. Emma herself might have followed the accepted procedure for erring singers: hold a pose and hope for the best. Instead she grimaced, vanished through the curtains. A few seconds later she popped her head out again and emitted a high, piercing...
...Taliesin," his Wisconsin stronghold. Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect whose friends have incorporated his genius for safe-keeping (TIME, Oct. 7), announced last week a new and puzzling project. For Manhattan's Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie he has designed four 18-story, glass-walled residential towers, intended to be the first demonstration of ideas which Architect Wright has mulled over for 30 years...