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...vacant hall remaining in the new section includes practically all of the fifth floor. This has been occupied during the year by a portion of the offices of the Graduate School of Business Administration, pending the completion of the new building for this department...
...January, 1925, one seat at the eleven-chaired table of the Interstate Commerce Commission became vacant. To fill it the President turned to the South. Dozens of southern names were presented to him, names of able railroaders, "good traffic men." But none of them was what the President wanted. Finally, it was hinted that he had found his man. But the ideal Southerner refused the chair...
...common-she must be common,' said Mme. Zizi. 'Her father is a man who runs from house to house, locating vacant apartments. How Carol came to meet such people I do not know, except that his entourage was shamefully bad. His aides-de-camp never looked after him properly...
Last week Premier King's Liberal henchmen whooped up voters of their persuasion at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where a vacant seat had been specially created by the resignation of one of Mr. King's friends in order that he might campaign for it. The territory was naturally chosen with an eye to being "safe." The candidate who opposed the Premier was one Captain D. L. Burgess, a sufficiently insignificant Independent. Suddenly, on the eve of the election, the Captain became obstreperous. He used the word "corruption." He pointed to a printed ballot on which appeared the Premier's full style...
Last year on the first appearance of Professor Copeland in New York since his appointment to the chair of English left vacant by the resignation of Dean Briggs, the gathering of University graduates packed the rooms of the Harvard Club at the reading and at the dinner the following night nearly 150 prominent alumni were present. On the committee for the dinner are T. W. Slocum '90, President of the New York Harvard Club, J. P. Jones '02, A. C. Smith '14, T. S. Lamont '21, and P. M. Hollister '13, chairman...