Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schubert Centennial (1928) and the Beethoven Centennial (1927). Touring Europe to enlist help. Organizer Sard broke the news last week in Vienna. He announced as a prominent cooperator Count di San Martino. president of the Augusteo Orchestra and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, who will head the European delegations. Another noble cooperator, the Marquis Tokugawa of Japan, will chairman a Far Eastern Committee. Music Patrons Otto Hermann Kahn and George Eastman will serve on the U. S. board. In conjunction with the festival a technical exposition will be held for manufacturers of instruments, records, talking films...
...lips, grey eyes, a blighted look. He worked as tutor to small André Grosgeorge. Once Madame Grosgeorge surprised the two in the garish lesson-room when André was stumbling over his history. Gučret heard the softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified, Gučret could not help admiring her vitality...
...city amalgamation is this chain. The list of its officers and directors is enough to show that the financial and business interests of a great part of the Northwest are united in it. President is George Harrison Prince, head of First National of St. Paul, native of Amherst, Mass., but acquainted with northwestern banking from the ground up. Now 68, he has spent 50 years of his life in the small and large banks of Minnesota. Vice President is Lyman Wakefield, head of First National of Minneapolis. The list of directors, incomplete last week, is to include the presidents...
...part to get around this legal limitation that bank chains such as First Bank Stock Corp. are formed. A holding company acquires control of several banks, operates them under a unified policy. The bank or banks at the head of the chain act as correspondents and depositories of the reserves of the members, all of which retain their individual identity. The important differences in practice are these...
...main office. First National has $403,000,000 of resources, and besides its main office, twelve branches in Boston, one in Buenos Aires, three in Cuba (at Havana, Santiago, Cienfugos). If the merger is effected it will produce no chain of banks, but one $610,000.000 bank with a head office and 22 branch offices...