Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resigned. Alfred Emanuel Smith, Manhattan realtor; from the directorate of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Reason: "I did not think it ethical to be director of the Metropolitan and at the same time be head of a real-estate company [Empire State Inc.] which was applying for a large loan from the Metropolitan Life with which to erect a building" [WaldorfAstoria building, Manhattan...
...Metropolitan--Pauline Frederick in "Evidence...
Other men who will be heard at different times during the term are Robert Whitten, city planner from New York City, and A. A. Shurtleff '96, an instructor in landscape architecture at Harvard during 1899-1906, adviser to the Metropolitan Planning Division of Boston from 1907 to 1909, and an adviser to the Boston Park Department since...
...Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province...
...absence from metropolitan diversions and advantages forces the members of the smaller community to develop their own resources. Besides preserving these opportunities, a plan for knitting the small college more closely into the educational fabric by exchanging professors with larger institutions would give the men from the more central institutions a chance to view their own educational problems free from the distracting activities of the higher pressure university...