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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second School will be handicapped at the Conference by the fact that none of its representatives will have the rank of a Chief Executive, whereas the First School will be strengthened by the prestige of President Calvin Coolidge and by the primeval emotion which Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh is expected to produce by landing at Havana while the Conference is assembling...
...institution of learning. Indeed, museums having the excellence of the University Museum and the new Fogg Museum--not to mention the many other less known similar organizations--are a rarety anywhere. In addition to all this, the Widener Library with its great collections is among the very first in rank of the libraries of the world...
Reconstruction. In 1919, Governor Smith appointed a Reconstruction Commission of private citizens from many a profession and rank of life. This Commission helped the Governor demobilize the state and deal with War-neglected problems, such as unemployment, housing, public health, transportation, food distribution, business and industrial unrest. The Commission also suggested that the government needed reorganization. The Commission perfected a plan, based on recommendations of a constitutional convention which had been held in 1915. The plan was adopted in 1925 by constitutional amendment. It did away with conflicting boards and bureaus; distributed all state functions among 18 departments, of which...
...sale of the Telegraph?a transaction known to have involved more than one million pounds?elevates Sir Edward Berry still higher in his rank with the two greatest newspaper proprietors of England. Both these men chance to be in the U. S. at present. They are: 1) Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Evening News), brother of the late and greatest British news titan, Viscount Northcliffe; and 2) William Mawell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (Daily Express and Evening Standard), a self-made Canadian, still sometimes referred to as "that bounder", but generally accorded the respect...
Proudly in the front rank of contemporary composers stands Bela Bartók, Hungarian. Symphonophiles the world over know him for a revolutionist, remember his music for its brutality, its stark rhythms. Last week he made his U. S. debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra-and a great audience was surprised.* They had expected a bulky, grim-jawed man with personality to match. Instead they saw a frail little person scoot shyly around the orchestra's first-string men and bow his way almost meekly to the piano set out for him. They had expected to hear...