Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grizzled "Lion of Lorraine" may find it necessary to delay his retirement, perhaps for months; but last week, as the Chamber and Senate convened, rumor insisted that M. Poincaré would shortly groom Le Dauphin for promotion by appearing with him in the Chamber and sponsoring a vast new project, which M. Tardieu has devised and which is called "The Program of Realization...
...date or other definite arrangements have been suggested yet, since the petition is still in circulation. It is understood that the project must be passed by the Student Council after it gets the approval of the class officers, and then must be submitted to the University officials. Since a meeting of the Council is scheduled for the near future, the petition will probably go to B. H. Ticknor '31, president of the Sophomore class, late this week...
...visioned a world which is learning the uses of the automobile: "It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world. . . . Road building is taking root in Australia, vast Africa, Spain, South America. . . . Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile...
...pens. The third pen was handed to a Hearst newspaperman. Dr. Elwood Mead, chief of the U. S. Reclamation Service (Interior Department), immediately sent a telegram to his chief engineer at Denver, directing him to mobilize a construction army and begin the $165,000,000 project forthwith. In Southern California and Nevada, people fired shotguns and banged on frying pans...
...smoke that was the Schubert Centennial there took shape one definite, perhaps permanent, project which showed itself last week for the first time under the name of the Schubert Memorial, Inc. On the notion that Schubert lived his life unrecognized, that today many talented young U. S. musicians are threatened with the same plight, it organized for the purpose of establishing a contact between them and "the representative musical public." Baldly, its plan is to sponsor debuts, dress them glamorously that many and important listeners will be attracted, including-and it was severely stressed-leading critics whose verdicts supposedly...