Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faces predominate on the new board as they do in the band. Type faces on the new board: Harry Harkness Flagler, onetime patron of the Symphony, is president of the new Board of Directors; Walter Damrosch, onetime Symphony batonist, is "guest conductor" under the combine regime. Of the Philharmonic group there are Clarence Hungerford Mackay, who is chairman of the Directors; Mengelberg and Arturo Toscanini, conductors; Sir Thomas Beecham, guest conductor, and Ernest Schelling, conductor of the children's concerts...
...Webster Barnes, founder of the club, onetime (1900-1905) Illinois College president, onetime (1918) Red Cross worker, capitalist, altruist, di vine. At Yale, Student Barnes, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., made his first efforts to bring sectarians together. Later, in Paris, Student Barnes assembled a small interdenominational group. Luncheon friends among Chicago business men he persuaded to become trustees of the original Chicago Sunday Evening Club and the beginning and continued existence of the club have been due to his efforts. Looked upon as experimental, the club found instant favor, had an average at tendance its first year...
...making capacity of the merger is 700,000,000 a year. Mr. Schulte will be president, United Cigar's Vice President W. T. Posey chairman. Last week both were elected to correlative positions with the Union Tobacco Co., a tobacco manufacturing subsidiary of the United Cigar-Schulte merchandising-financial group...
...There a group of youthful artists learns to applaud her studied phrases, but they lose their charm "all kneeling," and her "yen" for adulation turns to other fields. She prefers "a pink-and-yellow apple" to "all the jewels in the Rue de la Paix," but marries a rich man and surrounds herself with the luxuries she pretends to despise. Too soon, she learns that her husband thinks more of his golf and his naps than of the blue, blue sky. "What peace it would be," she writes in her journal, "to let my body enter the sea, and sink...
...active political season at Harvard will be launched definitely this week with a rally and parade sponsored by the Harvard King George for President Club. According to "Number Ten," leader of the organization, when interviewed in the club's offices in Hollis 16, the motive spirit of this group of political enthusiasts is not anglomania, but a desire to give the American people what they really want in a president. "We have no need of circumlocution in our platform," stated the chief. "For instance, we promise an amalgamation of the United States and Canada, free spirits for all, tariff protection...