Word: select
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...research authorities and socialite backers, Mrs. Belmont outlined over a nationwide radio hookup the three main objectives in the latest U. S. campaign for more moral cinemas: 1) Elimination of "objectionable" films, 2) more pictures made specially for children, 3) right of a community to select films. Said the Council's new president: "We are starting a movement here which will spread across the country from coast to coast. There are literally thousands of little groups interested in better movies, and we are bringing them into this one movement. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, our honorary vice president, is drawing...
When the proposal of publishing the paper was placed before the club members last night, an overwhelming majority of 13 to 3 approved it. A select few, who later were found to be interested in the Harvard Critic, opposed the new plans, but their objections were quickly checked by the remaining enthusiastic supporters of the future newspaper...
...subject so thoroughly that his reputation spread to St. Louis and on to Chicago, whither he went in 1914 as vice president of the Live Stock Exchange National Bank. During the War the late James B. Forgan, chairman of First National, was asked by the Federal Reserve to help select a man for the Treasury certificate drive in Chicago. He called for a list of Chicago bank presidents. "There's your man," he said, his pencil stopping at the name Traylor. Mr. Traylor sold so many certificates that the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank wanted to make him deputy governor...
...directors has appointed a special committee of directors to consider such matters as may have been disclosed or touched upon at the recent hearings with reference to the bank and its affairs before the subcommittee of the Committee on Banking & Currency of the United States Senate, with authority to select, employ and consult with special counsel concerning such of these matters as may be considered to furnish grounds for a claim or claims in favor of the bank and to commission such counsel fully to investigate them." His stockholders thrilled to every syllable. Then in the same prosaic...
...select delegates to the New England Model League of Nations, an organization meeting will be held in the Eliot House Senior Common Room at 8.15 o'clock this evening. As chairman of the Harvard delegation, Malcolm A. Hoffman '34, will preside...