Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small portion of New York University's fame derives from the quasi-official Hall of Fame which was founded within its precincts and entrusted to its care in 1900 by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard at the suggestion of the late Henry Mitchell MacCracken, Chancellor (1891-1911) of N. Y. U. There, august in bronze and marble, stand the busts of 49 famed Americans, including Robert Fulton, Horace Mann, Maria Mitchell, Edgar Allen Poe, Ulysses Simpson Grant, George Washington, Mark Hopkins, Gilbert Charles Stuart. There, too, shall stand John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, James Russell Lowell...
...public may nominate for the Hall of Fame any of its heroes, provided they have been dead 25 years. The names are considered by a New York University Senate. If two Senators approve of a name it goes to a nation-wide committee of electors, which includes no N. Y. U. officials. The names which receive at least three-fifths of the votes are thereupon inscribed in the Hall...
More than $2,000 was assembled and the income from this fund was used to establish an annual lectureship. Last year J. Alfred Spender, retired editor of London's oldtime Westminster Gazette, went to New York University and spoke. It was decided to hold the lecture each year in a different part of the country. The subject of the lectures is "some form of dynamic journalism...
...Knox met his former friend in the office of Mr. Hearst's Detroit Times. Colonel Knox suggested that square-jawed Banker Guck come into the Hearst fold. Banker Guck agreed. After six months of learning Hearst methods on the New York Evening Journal, Newspaperman Guck was sent to San Francisco to general-manage the Hearst Examiner there. Now he is considered ready and able to represent the Hearst interests in Chicago, fabulous city of world's fairs, gang-wars, tallest buildings, youngest university presidents, blatant mayors, model department stores, bursting progress. Having made a mark on both edges...
...publishers, young men both, were William LaVarre, former circulation promoter of the New York Times and New York World, and Harold Hall, former business manager of the New York Telegram. They told of purchasing four papers: the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, the Columbia (S. C.) Record, the Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald and Journal. All purchases were for cash and the entire sum, $870,000, was supplied by International Paper & Power Co. In exchange they gave their notes which were secured by the stock of the newspapers as collateral, although the actual certificates were not turned over. In no case did they...