Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lucas '00. Richard C. Cabot '89 occupies the positions of Director of Medical Centres in the Bureau of Refugees and Relief. Edward E. Hunt '09, who acted as delegate for the city and province of Antwerp from 1914 to 1916, and was director of civilian relief in the American Red Cross for Italy last year, is at the head of the Bureau of Reconstruction and Relief. On the Editorial and Historical Division, Barton Blake '05 acts as chief and included among his assistants is Lewis S. Gennett '13. Most of these men have been abroad from the first...
...production in the United States for the year 1917, according to returns just completed, reached a total of 10,060 titles, a falling off of 385 from the count for 1916. The absolutely new books of the year were 8,849, as against 9,160 for the year before. American authors, who furnished 8,430 of the books of 1916, contributed but 8,107 to the lists for 1917. Imported books fell from 1,648 to 1,324 in the two-year period of comparison; American prints of foreign works rose from 367 to 629, this increase being accounted...
...fiction, the American output fell from 932 in 1916 to 922 for last year, and native novelists offered 632 new titles in the later twelvemonth as against 703 in the earlier...
...January 12, have been completed. The date has been changed to February 12 in order to conform with the Garfield fuel conservation regulations. The meeting will be held in the Boston Opera House and the receipts taken in will be devoted to a fund for the benefit of the American University Union headquarters for college men in Paris...
...known by his book "The Case Against Germany," which is a lawyer's digest of the propaganda that the Imperial government has carried on in the United States, as evidence 1 by the revelation of German diplomatic communications. Mr. Beck is one of the most prominent leaders of the American Bar and probably has argued more cases before the United States Supreme Court than any other contemporary attorney. He is an orator of international fame, an authority on trust cases and international law and is known almost as well in England as in New York and Washington. Under the Roosevelt...