Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediately afforded by the construction of the top story of the new gymnasium, a plan which would more than double the present College basketball facilities. The present admirably vigorous administration of intramural basketball can hardly reach to one-half its potential usefulness unless granted the cooperation of those who hold the strings of a still unexplainedly bulging purse...
Comrade Zinoviev fell into the bad graces of the Soviet Government about the same time as did Leon Trotsky, but unlike Trotsky he crawled back into the Soviet's good graces. Devoid of power, he remained in the party; in Russia only a member of "the party" can hold office...
...Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved to a 14-room apartment on Park Avenue, Manhattan...
...Liberal Club, a recognized student activity, intended to hold a forum on the Mooney-Billings case in California,* received University permission to hold it in Alumni Hall. Then Pittsburgh's Chancellor John G. Bowman decided and declared that the Club was using the University's name to propagandize. He revoked the permission. Sociologist Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College, who was to have spoken in the hall, agreed to speak anyway, anywhere. The Liberal Club found a vacant lot for its meeting. For holding the meeting at all, the club was abolished...
More than $2,000 was assembled and the income from this fund was used to establish an annual lectureship. Last year J. Alfred Spender, retired editor of London's oldtime Westminster Gazette, went to New York University and spoke. It was decided to hold the lecture each year in a different part of the country. The subject of the lectures is "some form of dynamic journalism...