Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roosevelt Club will give a luncheon on Roosevelt's birthday, next Monday, on the fourth floor of the Boston City Club Auditorium. The luncheon will begin promptly at 12.30, but will be preceded by a reception at 12 o'clock. At 1 o'clock there will be speeches by His Excellency Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts; William Roscoe Thayer, '81, who is the leading biographer of President Roosevelt, and the Honorable James R. Garfield, son of President Garfield and member of President Roosevelt's cabinet...
...Massachusetts voters are urged to join the Roosevelt Club, the dues of which are one dollar a year...
This luncheon comes at the same time as the great drive for members for the Roosevelt Memorial Association. The proceeds of this drive will be expended in establishing a permanent memorial to honor and perpetuate the memory of Theodore Roosevelt...
...present president of the Board is Judge Robert Grant of Boston. Among the thirty members of the Board who are expected at the meeting are Major General Leonard Wood; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge; Howard Eliot, former President of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and now President of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Arthur Woods, assistant to the Secretary of War, and formerly police commissioner of New York City; Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Owen Wister, the novelist; W. Cameron Forbes, ex-Governor of the Philippines; Joseph...
...later life Robert Bacon was a banker, first in Boston and, since 1894, with the Morgan firm in New York. Appointed by Elihu Root as his Associate Secretary of State, he later became head of the State Department under President Roosevelt. As Ambassador to France he served for three years with great distinction. An advocate of preparedness, he strongly supported General Wood's Plattsburg Officers' Training Camp System. Attending the first Plattsburg business man's camp, he became a major in May, 1919, and returned from France after the armistice as a Colonel on General Pershing's Staff. During...