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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Busy last fortnight was Grover Aloysius Whalen, newly-appointed Police Commissioner of the largest city...
...irreligious age, modern popular biography has come abundantly, desperately, to his rescue. Author Lee, spirited Texan Methodist clergyman, enriches a sound, engrossing history with cogent anecdote and incident. Author Lipsky, Jewish student of psychology, makes a shrewd analysis of the itinerant preacher who founded, in spite of himself, the largest extant Protestant denomination...
Statistics from 216 colleges and universities showed a 2% increase in enrollment. Revealed were such facts as these: the largest divinity school (298 students) in the U. S. is in Chicago; Hunter College (Manhattan) is the largest women's college (4,918 students); the largest liberal arts college is the University of California (9,783 students); the largest law school is at New York University (1,785 students) ; Pennsylvania has the largest dental school (430 students); University...
Bank Mergers. Fast-growing, the Manufacturer's Trust Co., 139 Broadway, last week absorbed two other Manhattan banks, became fifth largest of New York trust companies, acquired position among the ten largest U. S. financial institutions. The banks merged were Interstate Trust Co., formed in 1926 by onetime (1923-26) Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey and State Bank and Trust Co., headed by Harold G. Richard. Resources of the combined banks...
Elected. Dr. James Kieran to be President of Hunter College, Manhattan, largest U. S. woman's college, to succeed retiring President Dr. George Samler Davis...