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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President James Rowland Angell of Yale University: "The elaborateness of modern college endowment activities was suggested by news last week that one afternoon this month, before I address a 'master dinner' of Yale alumni in Manhattan at the official opening of Yale's latest $20,000,000 campaign, I am to address by radio all Yale alumni in the U. S. and also Europe. A 32.79-metre wave, it is expected, will make my plea for money heard by Yale men, idle and diligent alike, in London, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Cairo...
...Saturday, is unusually rich in lectures that promise instruction and entertainment. Saturday usually presents a dearth of lectures that drives the Vagabond to Boston where he investigates a new exhibition, attends a concert, or even sneaks into a picture palace to indulge in the racy thrills of the latest stupendous feature from Holywood...
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. losses signify, chiefly, that Chairman Marconi has been consistently honest in utilizing the technical improvements of Inventor Marconi. By inventing new ways of wireless communication-the latest is the beam system†-he has made obsolete millions of dollars worth of equipment which was new only five or ten years ago. His company, like General Electric and Radio Corp. of America, is paying for the advancement of applied science...
...BAND PLAYS DIXIE-Morris Markey-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Author Markey, the latest recruit to that swelling corps of young Manhattan newsgatherers who write disillusioned novels about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely...
Although Fan Noli has not been in prominence for the last few months all Albania realizes that he has been the directing force behind the latest international complication. The last that the outside world has seen of him was immediately after his evaenation of Albania with a colene of ministers and as the dispach said "a lot of money" He soon took up quarters in Vienna in an artic where he continued his work of translating classics into Albanian Anyone acquainted with the difficulty involved in such a work will appreciate the task he has undertaken. He had already translated...