Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Feb. 8 (FRANCE), your little article under the caption of "Quel Beau Nu" doesn't exaggerate one bit. I spent the summer in Paris and was at the Concert Mayol several times. Why I went is beyond me, as it is without question the greatest "gyp" joint ever foisted on an American public. You can't turn around without bumping into an extended palm, and my first experience cost a 20-franc note for a one-franc service. They don't know the meaning of the word "change." The insipid Harry Pilcer was the leading (?) attraction...
Pennsylvania never made great headway. It has entered politics chiefly with negative success in the Pittsburgh region. It was able to send about 5,000 members to the parade in Washington last summer...
...voted to accept the Rothschild student travel scheme which will permit 400 American college undergraduates to go to Europe next summer for study and travel in foreign colleges and to end up at the congress of the Confederation International des Etudiants which will be held in Prague in the fall. A travel committee composed of Marion Breckenridge of Vassar, Lewis Fox Princeton '26, and F.V. Field '27 was appointed...
...President Coolidge, facing reporters in his usual conference, intimated that he did not expect to spend next summer at Swampscott; that if it was true, as reported, that Congressman Davey of Ohio had said (TIME, Feb. 15 POLITICAL NOTES) that $500,000,000 could be saved by having fewer Federal employes and keeping them on the job, the Congressman was mistaken; that as for the Senate's resolution asking him to enter the negotiations in the anthracite strike, it gave him no authority, did not alter the deadlock, and he saw no more reason for intervening than...
...This sum Mr. Rockefeller will duplicate. Additional gifts have been volunteered by others of the congregation, so that no general canvass for funds will be needed or made. If any shortage of funds develops, certain members have guaranteed sufficient financing. Such amplitude of money stopped tentative talk last summer of constructing a "skyscraper," church, like the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple to be built on Washington Heights, Manhattan, for Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, with apartments, club rooms, etc., to produce income for the support of the church. The Baptists scorned the idea...