Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the rumor persisted that the Metropolitan was so hard hit financially that it might have to curtail its present season or disband in the spring. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, some said, resigned as board chairman this autumn because he was tired of playing patron. But people who believed that knew little of the Metropolitan's workings. Banker Kahn owns from 70 to 80% of the producing company's stock but, contrary to the impression he sometimes gives, he has never "backed" it in the sense that Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick once backed Chicago's Opera or that Louis...
...announcement yesterday that the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art will disband after its current exhibition because of lack of funds can only be viewed with regret. The organization in just beginning to realize its aims and purposes. Collectors are new willing to lend their masterpieces, and this year public interest in the project has grown enormously. There have been planned for the winter some unusually fine exhibitions, which unfortunately must be curtailed...
Having voted earlier in the year to disband, and join forces with the Liberal Club, announcement was made last night by H. T. Matson 3T.s., Chairman of the Provisional Organization Committee, that the Harvard Socialist Club will remain intact this year, and will hold its first meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in room F. Emerson Hall...
...Governor" Cyr countered on Tuesday by telegraphing to Adjutant General Ray Fleming in New Orleans an order to disband the troops. He signed himself "Governor & Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard." The order was ignored; Adjutant General Fleming was reported to be in Atlanta. Captain W. J. B. Hawthorne of the Baton Rouge troops said the movement was merely a "test," explained that Tuesday was drill night anyhow...
...formed the plan whereby the Boxer indemnities, remitted by Congress in 1924, were steered into a fund for Chinese educational development. Last winter, fearful lest China turn Red, he urged the State Department to have German Reparations applied by capitalist Europe and the U. S. to China, to disband armies, build public works. The State Department pigeonholed that idea...