Word: lees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campus, and such illustrious out-of-towners as Charles Evans Hughes of Manhattan, George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington and Steelman Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland (elected last week), the board includes new-risen leaders of business and finance like President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co., Harry B. Gear of Commonwealth Edison Co., Charles Revell Holden of the Union Trust Co., Robert L. Scott of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (department store), Albert W. Sherer of Lord & Thomas and Logan (advertising agents), John Stuart of Quaker Oats Co. (Chairman of Princeton's trustees...
Virginia. Nationally significant was the election as Virginia's next Governor of Professor John Garland Pollard (William & Mary), regular Democrat, over Professor William Moseley Brown (Washington & Lee), Hoovercrat. Republican claim- stakes sunk in Virginia by Herbert Hoover last year were jerked up and cast aside as the State was returned to normal Democracy by a thumping 70,000-vote margin. When Republicans and anti-Smith Democrats coalesced on Professor Brown and "a new era of humanity" was predicted (TIME, July 8), President Hoover wished the new group well, hoped it would hold his 1928 gains in the South. Underlying...
...formal opening of the heralded Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 16). Invitations had been sent to many a socialite and artist. With Sir Joseph was his daughter Dorothy, more of a modern art enthusiast than he. Around them were Collectors Duncan Phillips and Chester Dale; Lee Simons, onetime editor of Creative Art (TIME, July 9, 1928); Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; William Cropper, arch-rebel draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern...
...Baltimore bank was created last week when Baltimore Trust Co. (total assets over $82,000,000) merged with Century Trust Co. (total assets $17,000,000). After the consolidation a $5,000,000 securities company will be formed. Big names among Baltimore trust executives include U. S. Senator Phillips Lee Goldsborough, Socialite Donald Symington, Banker Waldo Newcomer...
South: Alabama Poly v. Georgia Tech at Auburn; Florida v. Washington & Lee at Jacksonville; Johns Hopkins v. Maryland at Baltimore; Kentucky v. Tennessee at Lexington; North Carolina v. Virginia at Chapel Hill; Texas Aggies v. Texas at College Station; Vanderbilt v. Sewanee at Nashville; V.M.I. v. V.P.I. at Roanoke; Alabama v. Georgia at Birmingham...