Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...round of dormitory existence other than a spiritless smoker once during the year should have taught the University the futility of continuing in the old path. Common rooms will never break down social barriers at Harvard: they can, however, furnish in the Houses a place for informal musical entertainment, group meetings, and similar functions which could not and did not exist under the dormitory plan. This was a plan which defied all efforts to secure continuity in any sort of undergraduate organization which had as its basis the residential unit. The Houses, on the other hand, supply ideal conditions...
...violin music by L. D. Wood '31, in the large common room. Wood will be accompanied by Edward Ballantine '04, assistant professor of Music and tutor. While the program has not yet been definitely arranged, Wood is going to include the Bach Sonata in A major in his group of selections...
...Chairman Woods and his associates bought a half interest in Addressograph Co. for $2,500,000. Owners of the other half considered the Woods group mere promoters, tried to block all their moves. In 1927 they finally bought the remaining interest for $4,000,000. The business was started in 1896 with a capitalization of $25,000. Typical of its growth is English Addressograph Ltd., sold by the U. S. owners some 20 years ago for $20,000, bought back by the company last year...
...week Diamond Match Co. new stock sold around $18 a share, but the company's bankers announced that, as planned at the time of recapitalization (TIME, Sept. 22), 350,000 shares had been privately placed at $37. Persistent was the story that Ivar Kreuger's Swedish Match group had acquired this block which carries 33 ⅓% of voting control. Obviously only a group which wanted a big interest in Diamond Match very badly would pay so much above market. Bankers for the company announced that "no change in management is contemplated," but of course the same management could...
...literary magazines review the books of the day, so has Tide reported monthly the noteworthy in Advertising -campaigns, copy, agencies, men. Founded three and a half years ago by TIME, Inc., Tide was purchased last week by a group of admen organized as Tide Publishing Co. President will be Everett R. Currier, of Currier & Harford, Ltd. and Currier & Ives. His principal associates will be Raymond Rubicam, president of Young & Rubicam Inc. as consulting editor; Philip Kobbe of Philip Kobbe, Inc. as promotion specialist. Present Tide Staff Writer Dexter Masters becomes editor, and Frederick Franklin, formerly of Sales Management, business manager...