Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Angell, however, has had no steadier right hand than Charles Seymour. In 1927 he became University Provost, chief link between Yale's faculty and administration. The first Yale bigwig to encourage the College plan, he helped supervise the building of the colleges, became master of one of them (Berkeley), was until this year chairman of the Council of Masters. His wife (Gladys Watkins of Scranton, Pa.), his 24-year-old son Charles Jr. (Yale 1935 ), now studying art in Paris, and his daughters Elizabeth and Sarah, helped him to entertain Berkeley's boys...
Newark's "Dr." Harley was called both an osteopath and a chiropractor last week. According to an imposing certificate on his office wall, issued by a diploma mill called the "American Academy of Medicine & Surgery," he is a "Doctor of Medicine & Master Diagnostician." Subscribers to his anti-birth plan submitted photographs of themselves in street clothes and in the nude, and received numbered identification cards...
...surpass themselves putting out fires in these buildings. Whether aided by this or not, the new company did so well in fiery San Francisco that two years later it decided to get along without the Fire Department, donated $5,000 cash to the fund and abandoned the 10% payment plan. But the name of the company stuck...
...holdings. All but one agreed. Mr. Levison made their subscription notes security for a $250,000 loan from the Crocker-Woolworth Bank. To policyholders he offered 50% in cash and 50% in stock of the new company. On every stockholder he levied a $300 assessment. Mr. Levison's plan worked. Fourteen months after the fire, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. had assets of $5,345,000, cash capital of $1,600,000 and a surplus over all liabilities. It was the only insurance company ever to survive the destruction of its home city...
...high time for him to marry. Sophie and her sister Ludovika, an ambitious German duchess, put their heads together, agreed that young Franz could do much worse than wed Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helen. In the ensuing royal houseparty to bring the nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley. Helen was mightily pleased with Franzi, but Franzi had no eyes for anyone but Helen's younger sister, 15-year-old Sisi. Sisi was a tomboy, but so pretty she made Helen appear a gawk. Franzi fell in love with her at sight, and for keeps...