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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Brooklyn Trust Co. Then there was a truly robust rumor that linked Guaranty Trust Co., National Bank of Commerce, Bankers' Trust and First National in a Morgan-group merger that would be the super bank of all the world. The rumors were all denied and seemed to consist of smoke rather than fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Banks Bigger | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...write at the rate of 1000 characters an hour, which seems slow in comparison with the speed of an American machine. This is, however, twice the speed with which one can print Chinese by hand. Furthermore, it is a greater speed than one thinks, because most Chinese words consist of only one or two characters, whereas English words consist of many more. Mr. Chiu in illustrating this fact said that 'Harvard' is represented in Chinese by two characters. The word is formed by transliteration, and curiously enough the translation of the characters is "laughing Buddha...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Library Uses Chinese Typewriter to Catalogue New Oriental Books--C. K. Chiu Shows How the Machine Works | 3/8/1929 | See Source »

...program will consist of combined numbers as well as selections given separately by each club. Approximately 155 singers will take part in the program: Smith Glee Club is sending down 95 of its members while approximately 60 men will sing in the Harvard Glee Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB TO SING IN BOSTON TONIGHT | 3/7/1929 | See Source »

...hands of a late antagonistic faction. It is especially striking in view of the fact that he has expended so much effort in bringing Italy under the absolute control of the civil government. He takes no consideration of the fact that in a few years the Italian nation will consist of those persons whose education he is now entrusting to an institution that by its very nature can not be anything but reactionary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSSOLINI'S GESTURE | 3/7/1929 | See Source »

...competition will last approximately eight weeks and will consist of three or four hours work in the boathouses plus short evening meetings with the University managers. The winner of the competition will become manager of the 1932 crew and, with the second man who will be given the post of assistant manager, will receive numerals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Competition Opens | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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