Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drake Hotel, Chicago, 35 of the nation's most famed business men held, last week, a secret conference. They had come in private cars from the four corners of the country, and they organized in a few hours the largest air transport project in the world. The company was capitalized at $10,000,000, and $2,000,000 was at once subscribed-enough to start immediate operation of a New York-Chicago overnight route. The list of officers and directors of the National Air Transport Corporation is imposing. President is Howard E. Coffin of Detroit, whose reputation was made...
Although Bushnell Cheney, a Yale man, is owner and Director in whose hands the project has taken shape, many Harvard men, members of the Dramatic Club and, most of them, affiliated with the late 47 Workshop, have been intimately connected with the Jitney Players. Last summer there were seven graduates and undergraduates of the University in the company, with three Yale...
...unquestionably designed to throw the country open to domestic and foreign enterprise, but it had small chance of success with Zinoviev riding the Third Internationale at a gallop. Christian Rakovsky, Chargé d'Affaires at London, and Leonid Krassin, Ambassador at Paris,* had both complained bitterly about having their every project and diplomatic advance stampeded by Zinoviev and his wild...
...disguise. But a millionaire can fall off a narrow steel beam as fast as the next man. The picture made its point. Richard Dix is acceptable as the young man. Frances Howard, who recently married Samuel Goldwyn amid excited publicity, seemed rather slight and spiritless. The Talker. This ponderous project indicates that, even if a woman must yearn for a career, she must not talk about it around the family fireside. This wife talked and put bad ideas into one young lady's head which did her no good; the husband was nearly snared by a stenographer. Many expensive...
Several additions to the system of undergraduate advisers are planned for next year. The project is still in an experimental stage, having been first put into effect a very few years ago. Its success has been so evident to members of the Faculty and to undergraduates that the new Committee will make efforts to bring the adviser into closer relationship with his advisees. Among the projected changes is a system of regular hours to be kept by the adviser in which to meet his wards, as well as an attempt to make such meetings more frequent and more informal...