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...Ecumenical Council and by a Church Assembly in England will be necessary before the Anglican and Orthodox churches are officially wed. When that time comes, standing at the side of the Archbishop of Canterbury, two against Rome, will be the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople. This high office, spiritual headship of some 120 million souls throughout the world, is held by the ascetic, bearded, polylingual Greek Priest Demetrios Maniatis who was elected by a majority of his brother metropolitans and invested as Photios II three autumns ago (TIME, Oct. 28, 1929). Born on Prinkipo Island near Constantinople (where now is exiled...
...glass was cut off during the war, it was the Bureau of Standards that set to work and made a glass the equal of Germany's to the incalculable benefit of the government. In 1923, Dr. Stratton devoted himself to the future of American engineering by taking over the headship of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was his achievement to bring the curriculum into more close relationship with industry. The Daniel Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory is only one of his many additions...
...people realize, however, what a highly centralized industry the film business is," Mr. Alstock remarked. "There are just four big companies: Fox, which owns the chain of Loew theatres; Paramount, which controls the Publix theatres; Warner First National; and Radio Keith Orpheum. The latter is under the headship of the Radio Corporation of America. So one great company manufactures the radio sets on which you hear, hires artists to broadcast and to make comedy reels, and owns the theatres in which the reels are shown...
...General Crosby will have under his direction the police, the fire and the traffic services. . . . His headship of those departments will be a guarantee to both the official and unofficial residents of the District and especially to the nation at large, that the capital of the nation will be free of organized crime...
...riding on the crest of the wave of triumph, sweeping all Harvard elevens before her with relentless power. In 1908 the tide turned, and although the Crimson victory in that year was followed by a Yale win in 1909, Harvard was launched on her triumphant march under the headship of Percy D. Haughton '90, the coach who led the Crimson forces out of the football doldrums...