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...just appointed Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. Since 1771 this title has been borne by some of Harvard's greatest teachers as a worthy memorial to the character of its founder, Nicholas Boylston, John Quincy Adams filled the position, and in later days Dean Briggs and Charles Townsend Copeland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOYLSTON PROFESSOR | 5/13/1937 | See Source »

...Louis, Perpetual King Jeff Davis opened the 29th annual "greatest and best" convention of the Hoboes of America. In a grimy hall in the flophouse district, 100 delegates heard greetings from Ohio's Representative Herbert S. ("Brother Bo") Bigelow, New York's Senator Royal S. Copeland, Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing who sent a $10 contribution, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor. Unanimously the hoboes voted to lobby for benches and cots in railroad boxcars and a special 1?-a-mile hobo rail rate, applauded King Davis when he thumped for enforcement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Convention | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, Honorary Judge for last night, was unable to attend. The three judges were Charles Francis Adams '88, Edward A. Taft '04, and Charles B. Gulick '90, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lee Wade Prize in Public Speaking Won With Borah's Anti-Court Change Speech | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

...Passed the Copeland Food & Drugs bill which would stiffen the provisions of the present law by including cosmetics under its provisions, forbidding false advertising as well as labeling, etc.-but not stiffening the law in enough respects to satisfy earnest reformers. Sent it to the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Director Weaver had a hand in creating the Copeland Sea Safety Act passed last summer. Its most publicized clause has been the requirement that all seamen must carry continuous discharge books, containing photograph, records of voyages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Weaver Out | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

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