Word: extended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missouri. The storm-swept University of Missouri also acquired a new president last week. The Board of Curators (trustees) decided to extend "a leave of absence" to President Stratton Duluth Brooks. Until the end of the year Dean Walter Williams of the School of Journalism will be acting president, full-fledged president thereafter.† The Board wished it to be thoroughly understood that President Brooks's removal was not the outcome of last spring's "sex questionnaire" rumpus (TIME, March...
...Pacific Coast last week Standard Oil Co. of California announced an additional method of natural gas distribution. By this project gas will be liquefied and shipped in tank cars to local plants, where it will be carburated. Thus communities to which pipe lines do not at present extend will none the less be prospects for natural gas service. The liquefying process is not aimed, however, at superseding pipe lines, but rather as an accessory form of distribution. Liquid natural gas will be distributed by Natural Gas Corporations of California, Oregon and Washington, all subsidiaries of Pacific Public Service Co. which...
...Victoria station last week. Prime Minister Tardieu, absent a month, was returning to the Naval Conference for the weekend. Every member of the French delegation was on the platform ; Britain's first Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander rushed away from a football game at the Oval to extend felicitations. Ramsay MacDonald sent a messenger to remind M. Tardieu to be sure to motor out to Chequers for Sunday lunch. U. S. and Japanese assistant secretaries beamed a welcome. At the Carlton Hotel, headquarters of the French delegation, doors banged frantically for hours as technicians and diplomats rushed...
Robert H. Lucas, U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, telegraphed "Amos 'n' Andy" (real names: Freeman F. Gosden and Charles J. Correll), famed radio blackface comedy team (TIME, March 3), in response to their petition that he extend time for filing the tax return of their business enterprise-Fresh-Air Taxi Co. of America, Incorpulated: "This propolition has been most doubtful, but restention will be granted...
...proposal of the Harvard Club of Boston to extend its membership privileges to Seniors, if adopted, should do much toward strengthening the all too inadequate ties between graduates and undergraduates. The recommendation comes from the President and Board of Governors in the belief that there is much to be gained by Seniors in their contact with older classmen in whose enterprises and professions they will to a large extent be participants...