Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Next day 23 of the officers, mostly captains, sailed for Paris aboard the President Harding while General De Witt, sure that his guides would behave themselves under any temptation, returned to Washington to complete arrangements for the wholesale excursions. The first group of 255 women, largely from Nebraska, will sail May 7. Eighteen other contingents will follow during the summer. Each group of 25 women (average age, 65) will be provided with an officer to conduct them to the military cemeteries, a trained nurse and free medicines to guard their health. The free trip of two weeks abroad represents...
Next stop for astronomers seeking total solar eclipses: "Tin Can Island" on Oct. 21. This island, Niuafou, one of the Tonga group, is so called because mail is thrown from passing steamers in tin cans which native swimmers gather up. Since "Tin Can Island" is located in the South Pacific volcano belt near Fiji and Samoa, the astronomers may expect their instruments to be shaken by temblors which jostle the island almost daily...
Canadian Cinema. Similar names, Adolph Zukor serving as president of both, a distribution contract until 1939, would indicate that the bonds of interest between Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. and Famous Players Canadian Corp., Ltd., are close indeed. But last year F. P. C. established its independence when a group of Canadians acquired control by purchasing a block of stock from Paramount and setting up a voting trusteeship. Soon afterward control was almost resold to Gaumont British Pictures Corp., Ltd., Fox controlled. Perhaps to avert some such catastrophe in the future, Paramount last week offered to exchange its shares for those...
...does now-slender, pale-blue-eyed, seraphically blond. He played for three years at St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan, saved his money, returned to Europe. His ambition was, and always had been, to conduct. So he hired orchestras, got his experience that way. In Paris a group of Cincinnatians heard one of his concerts, marked his magnetic energy, his romantic appearance. They decided that he was the man to reorganize the Cincinnati Symphony. To Cincinnati he went in 1909, built up a first-rate orchestra (and a baseball team among the players). While there he married Pianist Olga Samaroff...
...games so far this season, defeating Brown, 1 to 2, and losing to Cornell, 4 to 3, and Oxford-Cambridge, 9 to 5. On the basis of comparative scores, the Crimson stickmen should be favored to defeat the Big Green, since the latter team was overcome by the English group...