Word: collections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomatic career. One of the wealthiest of the necessarily moneyed diplomatic corps, he began as a humble secretary, advanced by ability as much as influence. During his 23-year diplomatic ascendancy he served in Athens, Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house in Washington, which he has adorned with old French stone carvings under the eaves, a formal French garden. Close friends are Art Lovers Laughlin and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon...
...Lyons a Mosaic of himself, made in the Vatican Museum, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan last week wrote letters to the pastors of his archdiocese, instructing them to dedicate October "to the supreme shepherd, Pius XI, in honor of the 50th anniversary of his holy priesthood," and to collect Peter-pence October...
...National celebration in honor of 130th anniversary of death of Count Casimir Pulaski, at Savannah, Ga., where he was mortally wounded aiding George Washington. In Michigan, a drive to collect an endowment fund for a Chair of Polish history and literature at the University of Michigan...
...school's first term," said Professor Doriot, "will begin in November, 1931. It is under the direction of M. Pierre Jolly, Head of the Research Department of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris, and also leading light in a new research organization that will collect cases for the school. To complete his plans for its curriculum, M. Jolly will spend the month of February in Cambridge, studying the methods of approach of the Harvard Business School...
After the committees have been selected, the members will meet with proctors of the dormitories periodically to discuss problems and questions for the improvement of the halls. Besides attending to such matters as procuring ping-pong tables, victrolas, or radios, the members of the committee will collect money from each man in the dormitory as a fund with which to arrange for dormitory smokers, and provide magazines for the common rooms...