Word: various
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight men who are just completing their course here will go to New London immediately after their final examinations for a short period at the Fort Wright sumarine base. After this they will go to various firms in New York to observe industrial application of electrical processes. The General Electric in Schenectady, the Bell Telephone in New York City, and the Radio Corporation of America will be visited...
Among the speakers who will address the conference are Oswald Garrison Villard '93, editor of the Nation, Kirby Page, editor of The World Tomorrow, and Professor H. H. Tweedy of the Yale Divinity School. Various other men prominent in social work are also included in the list of speakers who will be present for the week of discussion...
There being no such, thing as a typical farmer; the distances and facilities between farms and markets being so various; the judgment of individuals?and the farmer remains a landmark of Individual-ism?running the scale it does, the first question of the man-at-the-lunch-counter is impossible to answer irrefutably. Some farmers drive Packards. Others ride mules. Some have radios. Others wear patched pants...
...keenest brains in Europe set Athenian politicians to squabbling furiously, last week and brought down the Cabinet of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis. Four years ago the famed old man, Eleutherios Venizelos, surprised Greeks announcing his retirement (TIME, 17, 1924). Followed a recuperative period spent at various European spas. Then smart Parisians were made merry by the apparition of a Venizelos once more sprightly and impeccably dandified. He sipped champagne with a zest smacked of youth. He popped in and out of limousines with ladies. He spent some of the money of his rich new Greek wife. And then, came sudden...
...many of the most notable singers from either continent. This is attended to by Administrator Pablo F. Barbat; for the coming season he has secured the services of Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Didur, Pinza, and Mme. Serafin-Rakowska of the Metropolitan; and of Maria Olczewska, Benvenuto Franci, Otto Wolf from various European companies. He plans to present Ildebrando Pizetti's new opera Fra Gherardo...