Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last winter he was appointed the Eleonora Duse fellow by the Italy-America Society of New York, which awarded him funds for a year of research work in Rome. He resigned this fellowship upon learning of his appointment as the Rogers Fellow...
...ideas. A Senior whose primary interest is still in the dates of authors, and the names of books, and in the interrelations of sources, has wasted his four years, but yet this is the very kind of man for whom the English Department's examinations are designed. Upon such unimaginative amassing of insignificant facts the English Department places its emphasis...
...President Andrews is also a Budd, as well as a Hupp director. At the age of 19 he was a dealer on the curb market, retired from the brokerage business (1919) at 40, bought, and later sold, a chain of California hotels. His Connecticut estate, Freestone Castle, is patterned upon English models; he has also a Colonial home in Altadena, Cal. He is the owner of the Sialia, a yacht formerly in the possession of Henry Ford. The Sialia is the fourth largest privately owned yacht in the world...
...first time far-sighted Merchant Filene had helped the League. He has outstanding another $25,000 offer to the Labor Office's Scientific Management Institute, conditional upon the Rockefeller Institute's donating a like amount. And the International Labor Conference which last week opened at Geneva is using a telephonic translation system for which Mr. Filene paid. This translation system is a device which records speeches in six languages, thus enabling most of the delegates to follow proceedings without the delay of interpreters...
...Ford-I. G. F. combination followed closely upon I. G. F.'s establishment of a U. S. Subsidiary which included among its directorate National City's Charles Mitchell, International Acceptance's Paul Warburg, Standard Oil of New Jersey's Walter Teagle, Ford's Edsel Ford (TIME, May 6). Just as this linking of interests had been interpreted as a linking of Standard Oil and I. G. F. to compete actively with the du Pont interests, so the Ford-I. G. F. consolidation was considered a Standard Oil-Ford-I. G. F. alliance against du Pont...