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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Times (Democratic): "We should have warmly greeted some Englishman distinguished in literature or science or social work who could have moved freely among us to give and take the best of either nation. This was not to be, and in the selection of Sir Ronald Lindsay a plain hint is given that the British Government expects to do a great deal of important business with...
...stock-market thinned most theatre audiences, filled the Civic Repertory Theatre. Situated on drab 14th Street, it is theatrically "downtown" (28 blocks below Times Square), a dilapidated structure with a facade of fire escapes, balcony pillars obstructing the view, and an unusually oppressive heating plant. It offers few conveniences either to audience or actors except vast, barnlike spaces in which many sets of scenery may simultaneously be hung. Yet last week, and every week this season, it was jammed. It was Mrs. Hoover's first choice of a theatre to go to when she visited Manhattan last month...
...Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building of 200 miles of railroad tracks in Oregon and California. Location and not length makes the proposed line important. It would connect two powerful allies, the Great Northern and the Western Pacific. Vigorously fighting these two roads on the question...
...entirely new institution that arose, six years later, out of three things: 1) Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed's desire to establish a Chicago college foundation; 2) The American Baptist Education Society's desire for a college somewhere; 3) John Davison Rockefeller's decision to found a college either in New York or Chicago. Mr. Rockefeller (always referred to since as "The Founder") gave $600,000. Marshall Field gave the site, worth $125,000 on the Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was to be held. The character of the institution was contributed by William Rainey Harper, the 35-year...
Fortunately enough Mr. Casey, Boston's estimable censor, was either absent or could see nothing wrong in cheering so long as there is no pecunlary advantage in it. Consequently the production was allowed to continue on to its ultimately happy conclusion much to the satisfaction of all present