Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deposit of the Business Historical Society's collection in the new Baker Library will make the Harvard Business School the center of the greatest business reference source in the world. The membership of the Historical Society covers the United States and Canada, insuring for the future a constant supply of new data for the Business Library...
Elliot H. Goodwin, resident (Washington) Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.: "Since I joined this body in 1912, as general secretary, I have had, practically, full charge through the various presidencies. (John W. O'Leary of Chicago is now President, TIME, May 24.) Membership now includes 1,458 Chambers of Commerce and other trade associations, which represent 15,000 firms and individuals. We now have a $3,000,000 building here in Washington. My salary is $20,000 yearly. Last September my board of directors decided to curtail my authority, to subordinate...
Charles Pelot Summerall was elected to honorary membership in the Phi Beta Kappa by Hobart College...
...watching his 82nd year flicker defiantly; he sees the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court), which he helped to found in 1920, bandied about between Senate reservations and counter reservations (TIME, Oct. 4.). He hears politicians and editors, young enough to be his grandchildren, say that World Court membership for the U. S. is becoming impossible; he reads that the Official Spokesman (Mr. Coolidge), young enough to be his son, thinks the international outlook is gloomy. Perhaps Mr. Root is sitting at a desk in his Manhattan home writing his last great speech in a language that will prickle...
When asked if he were a Harvard graduate, Mr. Morris said, "Well, I may be called a graduate by 'injection'. I was injected into the class of 1901 six years ago at the outing of the Associated Harvard Clubs at Nantasket. The membership in the class has been a source of great pleasure to me, although my position is purely honorary...