Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Government, through its Embassy at Washington, has presented Harvard University with the sum of 50,000 francs, to be used "in Strengthening the friendship between this country and France by spreading the knowledge of the French language." The interest will be used, every two years as a scholarship to some student of the French Department who is working for a doctorate, and who could not complete his thesis without several week's study in French libraries or archives...
...replace Anita Colombo, able directrix of La Scala Opera in Milan who lost her job last month, partly because of her friendship with anti-Fascist Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Sept. 28), a rich Venetian and pioneer Fascist was appointed: Erardo Trentinaglia. Esteemed in Italy as a composer and conductor, Signor Trentinaglia planned first to shorten La Scala's season, cut down on novelties...
...older men, stimulating intellectually as well as socially. The plan of inviting visiting celebrities will help to accomplish this aim. But there are within the university many professors whose acquaintance would be delightful and valuable. A casual contact with some of these could be followed up and become a friendship of lasting value. Professor Williams in speaking at Adams and Winthrop Houses has started a tradition which it would be well to continue. If the Houses are to develop along the best lines they might well be a media for such contacts...
...inform you that Mexico has been absent from your high organization due to causes apart from any lack of the spirit of cooperation and immediately accepts the reparation you offer.* She therefore accepts membership in the League on the terms you announce, and offers a loyal spirit of friendship...
Early in his career Flagler was a partner of John Davison Rockefeller. More than that they were close friends, worked in the same room, lived only a little distance from each other. Rockefeller called Flagler's friendship "valuable above all other possessions," and credited him with the scheme of controlling the oil supply of the country. "I wish I had had the brains to think of it," Mr. Rockefeller once said on a witness stand...