Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limousine, distanced newsgatherers, photographers. Then for a few days Secretary Mellon of the U. S. Treasury dwelt on the ancient Ile St. Louis, hard by Notre Dame, surrounded by the muddy Seine, ensconced at the venerable and opulent mansion of M. Rousseau whom the Secretary is said to address as "Teddy...
Priestley. The ceremony to be performed in Chemist Priestley's memory at Northumberland, Pa., at the "shrine of American chemistry," was to include an address by Dr. Charles A. Browne, chief of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry, on Priestley's life and work. Dr. Browne would tell of a somewhat indigent, stammering, nonconformist minister, born in Yorkshire in 1733, shifting about England from one small parish to another, teaching school besides preaching, and performing experiments of "natural philosophy" in makeshift laboratories. Extremely versatile, never idle, he learned all that his contemporaries knew about electricity and wrote...
...view of my refusal to ignore the laws and to seek the abolition or amendment of them, you still wish to use lawful means to attain your desires, the way is open to address your petition to the Deputies and Senators of the Federal Congress or to the local Legislatures...
...Louis, far across the bayous on the Mississippi coast. Just as Louisiana is of all States perhaps the most detached and self-concerned, and just as New Orleans concentrates the independent-mindedness that makes this so, just so does Editor Marshall Ballard, with his loose, comfortable clothes, vigorous address and un concerned habits epitomize the talented Southern individualist in an age of "mass circulations" and commercial editorial...
...Oliver was called upon again at the close of the congress, to thank Edward of Wales for his presence and interest as the Association's president. Referring to the Prince's opening address, in which Science and Government were felicitously intertwined (TIME, Aug. 16), Sir Oliver said: "It is not altogether a secret that his distinguished family chaffed him and suggested that he might make a mess of it. We all agree that he did not make a mess of it." The British Association then voted to hold its 1929 Congress in South Africa...