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...setting without a degree; his string of cures being nullified in their eyes by the lack of a string of Latin words after his name. He believes he can score over them by healing this crippled daughter of his chief antagonist; she consents, despite a parental frown which cannot straighten her limbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays: Mar. 17, 1924 | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

...straighten out any misunderstanding about the dance as well as to give general information and late application blanks, the Dance Committee will hold office hours from 4 to 6 o'clock tomorrow at 9 Bow Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGINEERING SCHOOL NOT FORGOTTEN BY COMMITTEE | 2/6/1924 | See Source »

...laborers on his reclamation projects. After the Dayton, Ohio, flood, he founded the Moraine Park School in that city, an institution which instructed children by advanced methods. The trustees of Antioch College, a liberal arts institution, several years ago called Mr. Morgan to the presidency in order to straighten out the financial difficulties of the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORGAN WILL DISCUSS EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS | 11/21/1923 | See Source »

...right flank of any possible French " march to Berlin." Should such leaders overthrow the Reich, France would be bound to act. The French General Staff foresaw " the necessity for certain military measures to protect the French troops in the Ruhr." The first of these measures would be to straighten out the Ruhr salient by taking strategic positions to the South in Westphalia. It was estimated that France could put 200,000 men in motion: 55,000 already in the Ruhr basin, 95,000 in the Rhineland, 50,000 massed near the frontier, including large garrisons at Metz and Strasbourg, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Strategy | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

...Kemmerer, professor of economics at Princeton, has returned to his work at that university after six months as president of a financial commission which was organized to straighten out economic conditions in the Republic of Colombia. This American commission, which was formed at the special request of Colombia, was instrumental in averting a financial panic which the minister of the treasury claimed to be "the most stupendous banking crisis which ever occurred in Colombia". Professor Kemmerer had under him on the commission several other noted economists, including Profesor F. R. Fairchild of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KEMMERER BACK AT PRINCETON | 10/10/1923 | See Source »

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