Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every artist in the U. S. could enter. Last week Samuel Fleisher's Olympics were simultaneously taken up by two good businessmen: President George Howard Johnson of Philadelphia's big Lit Brothers department store, and a onetime Morgan partner, President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania...
...flowers from sleek Radnor estates to distribute in the Philadelphia slums, became interested in the Cultural Olympics and promised to write a blank check to launch them if Mr. Fleisher would get a solid organization behind him. In Philadelphia no organization is more solid than the University of Pennsylvania and the pair called on President Gates. Not averse to making news or friends during his money drive for the University's 1940 Bicentennial, President Gates last week agreed...
Firmly convinced of the value of the plan after a month's cooperative investigation and discussion, the undergraduate newspapers of Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale are today joining in a proposal for the formation of an Ivy League, to include the football teams of these seven institutions...
Formation of an Ivy League to include the football teams of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and Pennsylvania, was proposed today by the undergraduate newspapers of the seven institutions...
...Stevenson Newhall, president of the Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities, director of a dozen Philadelphia companies. Said he: "If mistakes were made, they were errors of judgment...