Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Louis Marshall, 72, of Manhattan, Constitutional lawyer (Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall), philanthropist, "acknowledged leader of American Jewry,"* chairman of the Jewish Council Agency; in Zurich, Switzerland, where he had gone to attend the Zionist Congress; of an infection of the pancreas. His accomplishments: Leader, in 1911, of the movement to abrogate the U. S. Treaty of 1832 with Russia after that country would not honor U. S. passports when carried by Jews, Roman Catholics or Protestant missionaries; leader of the Jewish war relief movement which raised $5,000,000; U. S. Jewish representative at Geneva in 1919; president since...
...periodicals, provide an excellent working library for the student of present-day business or the investigator into business history. For the use of the former, provision is made--especially in the Baker Room of the Library--for the acquisition of the better sources of current information on finance, commodity movement, and the like, whether such material be of governmental or private origin. The Library believes its primary obligation that of creating and maintaining this assembly of reference data on contemporary business activity...
Colonial New England grew away from the rivers and valleys and Harvard was no exception to the rest of the country. But in the same way the college was not far behind when railroads and better transportation drew the population into the once dangerous lowlands. The movement from the Yard to Mount Auburn Street started with the transfer of the athletic center to Soldiers Field in 1891 and was closely followed by the erection of the famous "Gold Coast" dormitories...
...British Empire has a greater potential home consumption than the United States. She has larger territories and population, and greater natural resources. I hold therefore that the trades union movement must follow with the closest attention the proposals being made for the organization of the British Commonwealth as an economic unit...
...chosen by Dewey [Hilles]. . . . She will not be docile . . . will neither revere nor follow him in the way of her fair predecessor. Last year she exhibited a distressing lack of faith in Dewey's political judgment, refusing to follow him in the 'draft Coolidge' movement, preferring to ally herself with the early effort to nominate Mr. Hoover, seeing eye to eye with the astute Ogden Mills who has the same affectionate regard for Dewey he has for poison ivy and measles. ... If there is any following, Dewey will do it, not she. ... A very charming sensible woman...