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...controlling the patents covering Grandeur (oversize) pictures. The close (although not corporate) connection between Mr. Clarke, Mr Stuart and Mr. Otterson has been evident since the announcement early in March of the Halsey, Stuart plan of Fox financing-a plan which provided for new Fox film stock to be underwritten by the theatres equipment company...
...method, the "inner college" idea, which underlies the organization of the new School, may conceivably grow to rank with the preceptorial system and the four-course plan as an innovation of major importance in college education. The Campus appreciates the generosity of those friends of the University who have underwritten the expense of the School during its first three years, and will be confident of the success of the endowment drive for $2,000,000 which is to be undertaken. The School of the Public and International Affairs has great possibilities. Its usefulness will depend largely upon the sympathy...
Aviation Corp., nominally a $200,000,000 holding and development company underwritten by Lehman Bros, and W. A. Harriman & Co., Inc. They will at first offer only $40,000,000 of stock to buy substantial interests in all branches of aviation (plane manufacture, motors, accessories, transport). William Averell Harriman is chairman of the directorate, Robert Lehman chairman of the executive committee...
Five million dollars of the money extracted by John D. Rockefeller from Pennsylvania's oil-bearing substrata were last week applied to perpetuate the surface grandeur of 600 square miles of the Appalachian chain far south of Pennsylvania. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial fund announced that it had underwritten half of the $10,000,000 fund sought for the Great Smoky Mountains National park. Public subscription and the legislatures of North Carolina and Tennessee had provided most of the other $5,000,000 required to buy what will be the outstanding national park in the eastern...
...first of the vulgar but munificent Mr. Eisman, then of the wan but even more wealthy Henry Spoffard. Dorothy Shaw, the hard-boiled bantam brunette who assists the capricious avarice of Lorelei, is neatly played by Alice White. It would have seemed not incredible had their jaunt to Paris, underwritten by Mr. Eisman to further the already astonishingly complete education of his two protegés, resulted in the complete rehabilitation of the French franc...