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Reasons given for thus anticipating the Treaty: 1) the moral certainty that no war emergency would arise; 2) a saving of $4,000,000 gross in upkeep; 3) release of their personnel for assignment to the new cruisers coming into service; 4) "a gesture of international confidence...
...Cost $36,393,011, upkeep $2,104,185 per year, speed 23 knots, major weapons nine 16-in. guns, armament sufficient to ''withstand the simultaneous explosion of four torpedoes," designer Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson D'Eyncourt who during the War was chairman of the British Admiralty Committee which produced the first tank...
...Immediately thereafter friction began between President Kelly and the State Board of Education. President Kelly thought that Idaho should have a junior college, that the faculty should have more money. The Board thought that the junior college was a failure, that faculty salaries were secondary to the acquisition and upkeep of physical property, that the office of Assistant President was superfluous. When the Board refused to accept next year's budget as presented by President Kelly-with salary increases made at the expense of other university expenditures-he resigned. Last week Wilbur Divain Vincent, Commissioner of Education, was made...
...charge. Such lodges would be known as "Pythian Student Castles." The plan: if each of the 705,000 Knights of Pythias gives $1 per year, two "castles" accommodating 100 students each can be erected annually. Each "castle" will cost $125,000 and receive an endowment of $200,000 for upkeep. A reserve of $55,000 will be set aside each year toward building more and more castles. Inmates will be fed at cost. Those States which are populated by the largest number of Pythians would receive their castles first. Next August at the national convention the project will be officially...
...unbend; to have him say gallant, flattering things and laugh his infectious laugh-such not long ago was the reward of a U. S. widow, Mrs. Henriette Tower Wurts, when she gave her sumptuous, ancient Roman gardens to the City of Rome and threw in $50,000 for perpetual upkeep. She received the double reward last week of an invitation to Edda Mussolini's wedding...