Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enters Mr. Stillings, angry. He drapes the nameplate with black crepe. He puts before it a floral wreath. He adds a placard reading: "Financially Dead." To reporters Mr. Stillings remarks: "Mr. Johnston's conduct has been extremely foolish and I intend to take severe measures with him." As one would suspect, Standard Diamond Co. deals in diamonds. Its patrons agree to pay $1 a week for 100 weeks, at the end of which period they receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves...
...unctuously, but boldly, Rudolph Spreckels explained: "The new company will be controlled by me personally, and I have permitted my name to be used as an assurance to the public that I have faith in the future of the company and intend to assume full re sponsibility for its management...
...Radio Corp. and Mackay Co. did Universal Wireless make its dramatic appearance. Such established systems as Western Union and Postal Telegraph must watch this rising communications company. Said Dr. John Nathonsohn, Manhattan representative of Universal Wireless, naively: "We are not proposing to undercut the wire companies. But we intend to offer a 12-word message instead of a 10-word one at the same rate now being charged for the shorter one by the telegraph companies...
Costa Rica's Gonzales. G. Gonzalez, son of Costa Rica's President Cleto Gonzalez, pleaded, argued, cajoled with Baxter Douglas Boozer and Donald Duke, two U.S. flyers, fellow passengers on the Pan-American Mail liner Colombia, bound for the Canal Zone. At the Canal Zone the flyers intend to fly to Costa Rica. Young Gonzalez wants to go along, to spend Christmas at the Costa Rican presidential palace. But aboard the steamship they would not promise him the trip. There might be an accident; he might be killed. The father Gonzalez would be pained, Costa Ricans vexed...
...scrimmage with the University Club team, a new defense pair consisting of S. L. Batchelder '31 and R. S. Ogden '31, both members of last year's Freshman team, displayed great promise. As Batchelder and Ogden were on the University football squad throughout the fall, Coach Stubbs does not intend to use them against M. I.T. tomorrow night. He expects, however, that they will prove to be of value later on in the season