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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among famed alumni of Washington University are Taftian Secretary of Commerce & Labor Charles Nagel. Coolidgian Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Senators Roscoe Conklin Patterson and Harry Bartow Hawes, Publisher Conde Nast, Authoress Fannie Hurst, Missouri's present Governor Henry Stewart Caulfield. Washington has the West's richest university art collection (over...
...durbar was to be in Victoria Memorial Hall. There on a dais the golden Viceregal Throne had been set up. Crowded close to each other on one side of the hall stood 500 frontier Khans, all in their richest gold sashes and blue turbans, all bright-eyed with mass expectancy. On the other side, starchy and aloof, stood 200 British officers and civil servants, many of them battle-scarred oldsters. Present also as Their Excellencies entered and the durbar solemnly began were the 40 who were about to become the Legislative Council...
Under a new income tax law signed by the President, "Turkish wage earners become the most heavily taxed in the world." according to Istanbul papers. Every Turk, no matter how minute his income, must pay at least 30% to the State. Richest Turks will get off easier than richest Englishmen who are taxed out of half their income. In Turkey, under the new law. "incomes over $300 per month shall be taxed...
...Brazos River flows through Waco, Tex. * Richest four are Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Chicago. Fifth was M. I. T. ?Cornell announced last week it faced a $250,000 deficit for the year. Dreading salary cuts, it asked alumni...
...largest in circulation but the richest, most expensive, most comprehensive journal of the building profession is Architectural Forum. Last week TIME Inc., publishers of TIME and FORTUNE, announced it had bought a majority interest in Architectural Forum. Reasons: the several elements of the building world?architects, engineers, contractors, workmen, investors?are at last integrating a great single industry. Early advocate of that integration, Architectural Forum promises to be the leading chronicler of a revolution in Construction in the next decade...