New York University Opens Rural Summer Physical Education Course
New York University to relocate its Department of Physical Education to Highland Ulster County for a 300 acre summer program. Courses cover gymnastics, dancing, swimming, camp methods, and military training with noted educators and guest leaders guiding lectures and special conferences.
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School of Physical Education
New York University
New York
Highland
Ulster County
Chodokee Lake
Chemung Range
Catskill Mountains
Department of Physical Education
New York City
Raymond Riordan
Empire State
National Educational Association
Union
New York State
Josephine Beiderhase
Department of Education
Louise Baylis
Erasmus Hall High School
John Daly McGarthy
Department of Biology and Hygiene
Clinton High School
William H. Geer
S.B
Lillian O. Stevens
St. Agatha School
Lyman J. Spaulding
Adelaide BR. Planas
Edna Wilkinson
Royal S. Copeland
M.D
City of New York
Frederick Maroney
New Jersey
Tristam W. Metcalf
the Globe
William G. Anderson
D.P.H
Yale University
Walter Camp
Physical Reserve
National Security League
National Victory Memorial Drive Plans in Washington
The George Washington Memorial Association launches a week long drive starting June 23 to raise 10 million dollars for the National Victory Memorial Building in Washington. State governors back the project and the Smithsonian controls administration with a pledge to create a central site on the Mall between Sixth and Seventh streets.
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Washington
United States
George Washington Memorial Association
Henry F. Dimock
National Victory Memorial
Congress
Sixth
Seventh
War Department
Board of Regents of
The
Smithsonian
Dimock
National Victory Memorial Fund
National Committee of Governors
Charles J. Beil
American Security and Trust Company of
Elihu Root
William Welch
Horace Porter
Charles D. Walcott
Wiliam H. Taft
Iran Remson
Fairfield Osborn
Charles W. Dabney
Charles J. Bell
John A. Wyeth
Thomas Nelson Page
Henry Cabot Lodge
Wilson
Value of German Bonds Fixed at Zero in Indiana
Indianapolis June 7 The value of German bonds issued since 1914 has been fixed at zero by Marion County inheritance tax appraiser William T Rasmussen The bond appraised was par value 1000 and is the only one of its kind to come before the appraiser in Indianapolis It is unclear where the bonds ended up though many German war bonds were sold locally before the US entered the war Other estates including Anglo French external loan bonds were appraised at par without objections from heirs.
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Indianapolis
William T. Rasmussen
Marion County
United States
Americans clarify relief aid money transfers and commerce links
Edgar Rickard, Joint Director of the American Relief Administration, outlines that money transfers to Europe do not require foreigners to buy American food. The program deposits dollars in U S banks and pays bills in local currencies, expanding from food to broader trade as banking links grow. Rates: Poland 14.25 marks per dollar, Finland 9.65 finmarks, Czecho Slovakia 15.50 kronen, Austria 24 kronen, Yugoslavia 23 kronen per dollar.
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New York
United States
Central
Europe
American Relief Administration
Edgar Rickard
Rickard
America
Poland
Finland
Czecho- Slovakia
Austria
Jugo-Slavia
Supreme Court to rule on word scandal in theater case
Waltéraft, producer of Cosmo Hamilton's Scandal sues George White who staged Scandals of 1919 asking if a name or part thereof can be protected. The case centers on rights for a Chicago production versus a Liberty Theater musical revue.
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New York
James
Supreme Court
Waltéraft
Cosmo Hamilton
Chicago
George White
Liberty Theater
Mohawk-Brighton District proposes model social unit program
Wilburne Phillips of the National Social Unit Organization tells the National Conference of Social Work that the Mohawk-Brighton District of Cincinnati has created a model child welfare plan, housing improvements, local statistics, ongoing education, and a capable organization to mobilize 100 percent public cooperation for governmental and social programs. He cites wartime public spirit and neighborhood involvement as keys to solving peace problems by organizing willingness to serve at the block level.
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Atlantic City
Cincinnati
Wilburne Phillips
National Social Unit Organization
National Conference of Social Work
Mr. Phillips
America
Federation Seeks Continued Food Control Skeleton Dept
The General Federation of Trades Unions asks the Food Controller's Department to continue for a period not as an expensive body but as a skeleton department to aid distribution until world political and economic equilibrium is restored.
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London
General Federation of Trades Unions
Food Controller’s Department
Missing Private Robbins Prompted Nationwide Dragnet
Buffalo reports reveal Army air service private Charles S Robbins 32 from Sherman New York vanished April 1 after withdrawing 2000 in bonds and 200 in cash from a Sherman bank He stayed at the Tremont Hotel Buffalo and was last seen there local police and federal officials have launched a city wide hunt with notes of possible foul play The War Department describes him as 5 feet 7 inches tall with brown hair and eyes and no marks He carried 10000 war risk insurance and wore a uniform at last sight.
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Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Charles 8. Robbins
Sherman
Army Air Service
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Tex
Robbins
C. J. Voigt
F. L. Morris
Voigt
Air Service
Hotel Tremont
Morris
Sherman Bank
Tremont Hotel
Texas
War Department
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Hudson
Department of Superintend
Nationalducation Association
Atiity
Ers
Germany
American Relief Association
Helen Colley
Overseas Theater League
the Press Publishing Co
Maurice Ketten
LON
Cerel S
Menace OF
Trey
Paris
Ta Dan
Smure
City Ice Stations
Ohio
Avon
City Ice Delivery CO
WAR Dept
Trade Board
Commercial Tribune Bureau
Munsey Building
War Trade Board
Rotterdam
Hungary
Supreme Economic Council
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