Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the incandescent electric lamp by Thomas A. Edison, the Harvard Engineering Society will hold a meeting tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock in room 110, Pierce Hall. The main speaker on the program will be G. L. Kennelly, Professor of Electrical Engineering, who was the principal electrical assistant to Edison during the period from 1887 to 1894. Special exhibits and programs telling of Mr. Edison's achievements and their effect upon modern civilization have been arranged...
...friend. Seated at the mammoth horseshoe were 86 diners. Vice President Curtis and his sister Mrs. Gann, the British Ambassador and Mrs. Howard, all Cabinet members and their wives, Prime Minister MacDonald's official party, mainstay Senators and their wives, were chief guests. Notably absent were Speaker of the House and Mrs. Longworth, who were "in Cincinnati," thereby reviving still more gossip on the Longworth-Gann feud...
Throughout a solemn night, members of the Foreign Office stood around the catafalque, raised high above the speaker's tribune in the Reichstag, as rigidly motionless as the great dreary candles. Near was a very showy wreath blazoned with a crown and W from onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. Next day Stresemann was buried with peaceful pomp. Not a militarist, there was not a uniformed soldier in his cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace...
Zechariah Chafee, Jr., professor in the Harvard Law School, will be the chief speaker at a public meeting to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in Ford Hall, Boston, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee. At that time several prominent men will speak against the censorship of plays and books which is at present creating so much comment...
...Institute of International Law meets at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., as guests of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Speaker: Elihu Root...