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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...performed other services to commerce. Mr. Hoover's latest effort through this Division is to compile a Dictionary of Specifications. He called a conference of industrial men in Washington prior to beginning work. The Dictionary is to help buyers throughout the country order standardized products and obtain exactly what they have in mind. It will be revised and reissued from time to time in order to keep pace with a advances in manufacture. By standardizing specifications Mr. Hoover estimates that the cost of many commodities can be reduced...
...bill providing for equal divorce rights for both sexes was passed by a vote of 257 to 26. The bill now goes to the House of Lords for approval. Under this bill women will no longer be obliged to prove desertion or cruelty in addition to misconduct to obtain a divorce. Thus they are placed on an equal footing with...
...sort of American Rhodes Scholarship, designed to aid in fostering good-will between the United States of America and Great Britain, and to create "that mutual under-standing that is the essence" of such good-will." Each year three young Englishmen are to be sent to obtain a portion of their education at the three American universities that appealed most strongly to Mr. Davison. The awards are made by committees at Oxford and Cambridge...
Members of the University who desire to obtain admission to the various League of Nations Assembly sittings next fall may write to Professor Manley O. Hudson, who sailed for Europe Saturday. His address during the summer will be; care of the League of Nations, Geneva...
...third Yale baseball game to be played in case of a tie in the series, have suddenly been changed as the result of a message received by the H.A.A., which cancelled the use of the Yankee Stadium in New York on June 23. Arrangements were immediately made to obtain the Columbia diamond, but on second consideration, it was decided that they outfield was too short. The Yale captain and coach then consented to play in Boston if Braves Field could be secured. Further complications arose, however, when the manager of Braves Field announced last night that he had already entered...