Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international good will. In his own writings last week he pointed out the risks of flying over lonely Central American mountains. Remarked dissenters: "How much more lonely are the wastes of the Pacific; jungles below the Equator; tropic waterways of the East over which he must fly if his portfolio of Ambassador of Good Will is permanent." Grumblers wondered if interest accruing to the national welfare by his flights is worth the calamitous crash of principal which would accompany his death. Col. Lindbergh is the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt. Thought they: "He is worth keeping...
...portfolio of 30 reproductions of William Blake's water color illustrations for "Night Thoughts"; edited by Edward Young, is being prepared by the Fogg Art Museum, and will be published about November 1. Max Jeffe of Vienna has reproduced 25 plates in sepia and five in color from the original drawings, which were selected from the entire series or 537 illustrations owned by Mrs. William Emerson of Cambridge...
...text with a foreword by Professor C. N. Greenough '98, and an essay by Geoffrey Keynes M.A., of London, who has made a careful study of the whole series of illustrations, is being printed at the University Press and will be included in the portfolio. This publication of Blake's water colors is the first to include reproductions in color, and the only one ever made by photographic reproduction from the originals. An attempt to produce engraved copies of 150 of the drawings in 1794 fell short of its goal, so that only 43 were made at that time...
...Brest-Litovsk peace conference with Germany. He at first refused the German terms, but the continued advance of German troops into the heart of Russia eventually forced the Bolsheviki to sign far worse terms of peace. M. Trotzky agreed to the necessity of ending hostilities, and handed over his portfolio of Foreign Affairs to become Commissar of War, in which capacity he organized the Red Army...
...Dublin the offices formerly held by Kevin O'Higgins were apportioned last week between President Cosgrave and Minister of Finance Ernest Blythe. Mr. Blythe was to become Vice President; and President* Cosgrave assumed the portfolio of Justice...