Word: groups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daniel is known as the leading spirit of the group. During the War he took the lead in seeing that the Government was supplied with copper at half the prevailing market price. Before he was 40 he had crossed the Atlantic 70 times. He is a patron of Art, Music, Literature, horse breeding, horticulture, an excellent geographer and anthropologist, a noted philanthropist...
First of U. S. learned societies, also Franklin-founded, was the Junto (1727). As the Junto was the ancestor of the Useful Knowledge group, each one of the present society's 436 members may proudly and properly trace his philosophical descent from the beginning of U. S. wisdom. Simple indeed were the questions propounded to the Junto's applicants for membership. The first was typical of candor in the City of Brotherly Love: Have you any particular disrespect to any present members? Do you sincerely believe that you love mankind in general? Do you love truth for truth...
Before William Crapo Durant resigned from active management of Durant Motors (TIME, Jan. 21), he chose a group of new executives, heavily interested in Durant stock, to succeed him, and last week turned over the management to them. In his choice of heirs he showed a marked predilection for executives who had trained under the brothers John F. & Horace E. Dodge. They are: for president, Frederick J. Haynes, onetime president of Dodge Bros.; for vice president in charge of production and engineering, Ralph A. Vail, onetime engineer in charge of Dodge production; for secretary-treasurer, John A. Nichols, onetime vice...
Newspapers. Anglo-Foreign Newspapers Ltd., a $15,000,000 holding company was formed last week in London, to acquire a group of British and continental newspapers. Chairman Harry S. Home will scout for French and German dailies. Vice-chairman Sir Robert Donald, onetime editor of the Daily Chronicle, will investigate possible British acquisitions...
...exhibition of invertebrate fossils is contained in one room. The specimens have been arranged systematically, giving the geneology of each group and showing the relationship to living representatives. These are numerous restorations, showing the probable habits of life and the appearance of the animals when alive. An entire case is devoted to an exposition of "how an animal becomes a fossil, and how deceptive fossil-like forms may be produced". This is one of the most interesting parts of the exhibit as it shows the steps in the development of a fossil, the appearance of which is vividly pictured...