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President Coolidge favored the authorization of the new cruisers, but objected to the three-year "time-limit" for construction. His objections, he said, were budgetary. He wanted the President to be allowed discretion in executing the program, dependent upon the condition of the Treasury. To persuade Congress to drop the time-limit, The last week offered to recommend a special preliminary cruiser-building appropriation so soon as the bill should be passed...
...than Nicholas Murray Butler is in Manhattan. So it was indeed news last Sunday when Max Mason, 50, resigned as president of the University of Chicago, to become director of the newly-created Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation of Manhattan. Chicago regretted his resignation, for his three-year administration on the Midway had been energetic, progressive...
...scholars whom Cecil Rhodes, diamond miner, endowed with three-year scholarships at Oxford University, were last week brought upon the black & white carpet of the U. S. press. There are some 550 of them living today of the 608 who have gone to and returned from Oxford since 1904. A question about them had been raised by Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, warden of New College, Oxford, lately Government education minister and for many years a trustee of the Rhodes Fund. The question had been relayed by Professor J. C. Beaty, traveling fellow of Columbia University, after an interview with...
...issue of TIME, May 2. The article is quite interesting and would be more so if it were quite true, but as it happens, I am not the retiring President General. I came into office last year and shall remain for another two years. Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook whom you designate as the new President General, retired last year after a three-year term...
Rogers Hornsby, slugging second-baseman, had been manager of the world champion St. Louis baseball Cardinals; had demanded a three-year contract, calling for $50,000 per year. Owner Sam Breadon had refused this demand; had traded Hornsby to the New York Giants. Negotiations concluded, it became known that Player Hornsby's earthly possessions were made up of incompatible elements. He owned a contract to play baseball for the Giants, also 1,167 shares of the capital stock of a rival team, the Cardinals. League heads, fearing scandal, said that he must dispose of one or the other...