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...this is correct I should suggest when the syndicate incorporates they select the name of "The Benedict Arnold Racing Club...
...methods of selection for the scholarships is as follows. Thirty-two are assigned annually to the United States. For the election in 1931 the states of the Union are grouped into eight districts of six states each. There is a competition in every state. In each state the Committee of Selection will nominate from the candidates applying to it the two best men to appear before the District Committee. Each district committee will then select from the 12 candidates so nominated not more than four men who will represent their states as Rhodes scholars at Oxford...
...under Director Angelo Scandiani. When he became ill, she substituted ably. Then in June 1930, Director Scandiani died. The Government had suspended La Scala's "Autonomous Corporation," appointed wealthy Senatore Borletti to be Royal Commissioner (dictator) of the opera. Under the supervision of Benito Mussolini, he was empowered to select a new director. He picked Signorina Colombo. The Press raged. People held mass-meetings. A woman? It was unthinkable. But someone sagely pointed out that Miss Colombo's most useful qualities?energy, firmness, business sense?seemed to be Teutonic in origin, were not likely to be imitated by Italian ladies...
...such a contingency is not likely to arise. Reason: exceptionally high reader interest among a highly select group of subscribers. Can TIME cite any periodical, religious or secular, that can match these figures of The Living Church? Of its individual subscribers (exclusive of agencies and single copy buyers), 27.6% voluntarily pay at "sustaining" rates of from $5 to $100 per year, instead of the regular $4 (lay) or $3.50 (clerical) rate. These sustaining subscribers contribute 41.8% of the total revenue received from individual subscriptions...
...which he fought in German navy planes, was several times wounded. In 1919 he helped found Scadta Airways, in Colombia and Venezuela, was its technical adviser till 1925. Capt. Hammer's engineering ability, combined with his familiarity with South American Airways, caused the Dornier company to select him for the DO-X's passenger-carrying trip up the South American coast via Porto Rico, Cuba and Miami...