Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the attendance at memorial services for Woodrow Wilson, held at a joint session of Congress. Edwin Anderson Alderman, President of the University of Virgina, and friend of Woodrow Wilson, delivered a eulogy of the dead that was perhaps a bitter draught for some of his hearers...
John Grier Hibben, Hon, '17, president of Princeton University, heads the list of honorary vice-chairmen of the league, Mary E. Wooley, president of Mt. Holyoke College, Edwin A. Alderman. Hon. '09, president of Virginia University, Henry L. Smith, president of Washington and Lee, Edgar O. Lovett, president of Rice Institute, and Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Dean of Barnard College, are on the list of vice-chairmen who will assist President Eliot in the task of organizing the drive for members...
...noticed that the President of the Bar Association was not exclusively the guest of the Lord High Chancellor and the Benchers of the Inns of Court. He was to be "wined and dined" by the King and Queen, the Lord Mayor and Alderman of the City of London, the U. S. Ambassador and by many other notables. At all these functions he was to meet the statesmen of the world and to have unrivalled opportunities for exchanging viewpoints. Said The Sunday Times of London: "He could not find himself in England at a more opportune moment." Certainly it seems hard...
...Majestic (White Star)−Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Frank A. Munsey, publisher; famed surgeons sailing for the International Medical Conference at Lausanne; Alvin W. Krech, President of the Equitable Trust Co.; L. J. Reckford, President of the American Lead Pencil Co.; W. G. L. Behr, California "lumber king"; Eldridge R. Johnson, President of the Victor Talking Machine Co.; Frederick Lonsdale (see above), after three days in the U. S.; John R. Mott, General Secretary of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A.; Frederick Toppin, Vice President of the International Mercantile Marine...
...homes of all its members. The local health authorities have quarantined both the Tabernacle itself (a $60,000 brick structure), and the homes of nine families. Legal action has been started on the count that they disobeyed the State law in not having their children vaccinated before school age. Alderman Miller: "I am sorry that I can merely hold Winterborne for court on the State charge ... I consider his action in advising the people against the calling of physicians as nothing short of murder...