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...Labor, not the Assistant Secretary of War, but the Davis whose given names are Norman Hezekiah, descendant of Snead Davis, a Revolutionary soldier, and who was Under Secretary of State in the Wilson Ad- ministration?this Mr. Davis announced that the $25,000 had been awarded to Edgar Algernon Robert, first Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (Lord Robert Cecil), third son of the third and greatest Marquis of Salisbury...
Although Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil held a title, it was only by courtesy, a concession made to all sons of dukes and marquises; he was a commoner. His title will still be Lord, and, although a change of name is his prerogative, he will probably be known as Lord Cecil...
...many, George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania appears to be the most able lawyer in the Senate. Mr. Pepper has been one of the most noted practitioners at the Philadelphia Bar. He served as Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania from 1893 till 1910. In 1915 he was the Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale. His appellate arguments are surpassed by those of nobody at the entire American Bar. He is in a class with men like John W. Davis, Louis Marshall, William D. Guthrie. He brings to the Senate, in addition to a profound knowledge...
...Administrative Boards in the University are announced for 1923-24: for the Medical School, President Lowell, Dean Edsall, ex officio, chairman, Professors Algernon Coolidge '81, Hans Zinsser, H. W. Cushing Med. '95, Reid Hunt, Burt Wolbach '03, W. B. Cannon '96, C. M. Campbell, and F. W. Peabody '03, Associate Professors J. L. Bremer '96, and Worth Hale, and Dr. Kenneth D. Blackfan; for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Professor C. H. Haskins Hon, '08, Dean, and Professor G. F. Moore Hon, '06, G. L. Kittredge '82, E. P. Kohler, W. F. Osgood '86, J. H. Woods...
...appears that the Communist spoke harshly of the chairman of a committee, one Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy, Conservative member for Northamptonshire. Fitzroy then called upon Newbold to withdraw. This angered the Laborites, who rebuked the Speaker for not having allowed Newbold to apologize. The Speaker, while thinking that " the gallant and noble member" (Fitzroy) had acted hastily, said he was obliged to put the question to the House. This was done, and the House was left " Communistless...