Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early as last June, however, a group of educators formed a committee to investigate and combat propaganda. These, linked by the hysterical name of the Save-Our-Schools Committee, boldly pledged themselves "to defeat the present dangerous attack on our schools and colleges . . . an adaptation as it were of the Monroe Doctrine to the American educational world...
...Delaware, an Episcopal boarding school will be established at Middletown, name, headmaster, still undecided. As usual in Delaware, the money will come from a member of the du Pont family, builders of roads, parks, manufacturers of collars, dynamite, automobiles. The member is Alexis Felix du Pont, vice-president of the du Pont Co., Wilmington. He, slim, tall, fair, slightly bald, made many a munition fortune during the War, plays the baritone horn in the Police band...
...Johns Hopkins a school of international relations which will commemorate by name the late Ambassador Walter Hines Page has been planned since 1925. A board of trustees headed by Owen D. Young is now raising $1,000,000 to launch the school...
...Warburg family derives its name from Warburg, a town in Westphalia, where Warburgs lived as long ago as 1400. At some time during the Sixteenth Century the family moved to Hamburg. Here, in 1798, was founded M. M. Warburg & Co. Since the founding of the Warburg firm-130 years ago-a son of the Warburg family has always headed the House of Warburg; no person not a Warburg has ever reached a dominant position. Comparatively, the Morgans are parvenus...
...Playwright O'Neill has visited, been rumored to have visited, or said he was going to visit the above places. Actually, he left Shanghai, China, a fortnight ago, when snoops and gossips annoyed him (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week, he turned up in Manila, Philippine Islands, under the name of "The Rev. William O'Brien"; he identified himself by showing a passport and an old account book with entries of royalties from his play Anna Christie.* Said he: "My plays are public, but my life should be private." He hinted that his next destination would be Rapallo, Italy...