Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sects. 5, 16 Geol. Lect. R. Mr. Smyser, sect. 7 Geol. Lect. R Mr. Bowers, sects. 10, 18 Emerson D Mr. Dewey, sects 17, 29 Emerson D Mr. Wright, sect. 12 Harvard 2 Mr. Ford, sect. 4 Harvard 3 Mr. T. E. Moore, sects, 18, 23 Harvard 5 Mr. Harvey, sects, 21, 28 Harvard 5 Fine Arts 10a Robinson hall Fine Arts 11 Fogg Mus Government 15 Sever 17 History 5a Sever 11 Latin 3 hf Sever 18 Latin 7 hf Sever 18 Physiology 3 Emerson J Psychology 12a Emerson J 2 P.M. (XVIII) Comp. Philology 2a hf. Harvard...
...Exchequer, Winston Churchill, succeeded in enforcing restrictions on British rubber production. Soon the price of rubber mounted to $1.20 a pound (TIME, Aug. 3, 1925), a rise of almost 500% in 13 months. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover protested, but the U.S. public continued apathetic. Big rubbermen took steps. Harvey Firestone told his son Harvey Jr. to take steps to Liberia...
Already the Firestones have been working their plantation for over a year under a tentative agreement (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) with the Liberian Government. Young Harvey Firestone Jr. (Princeton '20) has largely engineered the groundwork of this vast project. Recently he surveyed the Philippines for further rubber possibilities, told President Coolidge at White Pine Camp (TIME, Aug. 16) that "in 15 years the United States could become independent of the British Rubber monopoly" if Philippine land laws are modified to encourage U. S. investments there...
Architect Bossom said ingenuously: "The American people build skyscrapers because they are unsophisticated." Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, in a written debate held by the New York Times, suggested what monuments skyscrapers would be to humanity if anything should ever happen to the race: "The explorer of a thousand years hence might piece together the fragments of our life gathered in one skyscraper and know the whole as though he had lived among us, from the cafeteria and nickel-in-the-slot telephones on the first floor, to the final office on the ultimate last floor...
...Returning from their jaunt to Kansas City, Mo., the President and Mrs. Coolidge launched into a busy social schedule; entertained the U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and Mrs. Sheffield, and later Col. George Harvey...