Word: howard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Radio Corporation. General Harbord was the man who first made the startling suggestion of reducing the trans-Pacific press rate to ten cents a word. It was his constant insistence that finally got the Japanese government to the idea of even going him one cent better. Roy W. Howard, Chairman of the Board of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, in Japan as a delegate of the Kyoto Pan-Pacific Conference, gave the proposition the final effective push that put it over. KARL A. BICKEL...
Punctilious, sensitive Leslie Howard strikes a proper balance between the comic and serious aspects of Peter's career. Margalo Gillmore, late of the Theatre Guild, is his wide-eyed partner in supertemporal romance. These two extract fine philosophical nuance as well as fantasy from their curious roles. All three acts are laid in a Queen Anne drawing room, magnificently rendered by Sir Edwin Lutyens, famed British architect (TIME, Aug. 12), containing an easel originally owned by Sir Joshua Reynolds...
...Catholic Archbishop of Manila, for $1,500,000. This news betokened the continued potency of the Church in the only Christian country in the Orient. By far the biggest business interests in the Philippines are Roman Catholicism's. When the U. S. took the Islands over from Spain, William Howard Taft had to negotiate a separate arrangement with the Church for its extensive "friar lands." settled by early Spanish brotherhoods. The U. S. paid the church $7,250,000 for 400,000 acres. By last week's deal, Archbishop of Manila regained 32,000 of these acres, plus improvements...
...last fortnight to Southern Ohio to carry on during Bishop Reese's illness (TIME, Nov.11). A pacifist, Bishop Jones is looked on by broad churchmen as Liberals eye a Red. Last week broad and high churchmen heaved sighs of relief when the diocesan convention of Southern Ohio elected Howard Chandler Robbins, onetime Dean of Manhattan's famed Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as Bishop-Coadjutor...
...High School; R. M. C. Hatch, Saint Mark's School; H. C. Hatfield, Evanston High School; C. E. Herlihy, Boston Latin School; B. A. Herman, Boston Latin School; J. D. Hersey, Warren Harding High School; C. H. Hollis, Chauncy Hall School; H. D. Horblit, Boston Latin School; J. B. Howard, Exeter; J. N. M. Howells, Saint Paul's School...