Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt had thought long and hard about this World Conference, which grew out of last year's Reparations meeting at Lausanne. President Hoover, accepting the League's invitation to attend, had despatched to Geneva Edmund Ezra Day of the Rockefeller Foundation and John Henry Williams, Harvard professor of economics, as U. S. delegates to help draft agenda. London was picked as the meeting place and Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's Prime Minister, consented to serve as chairman. Still unsettled was the opening date...
...Moscow authorities proceeded with plans for the trial of the British engineers but made several concessions. All but one of the prisoners, W. H. MacDonald, were released on bail. Though they had been refused British counsel to defend them, it was announced that British lawyers would be allowed to attend the trial as observers. Finally a squad of Soviet lawyers was rounded up to act for the defense, and the arrested Britons were summoned to the offices of the Collegium of Attorneys to pick their favorites. Their choices: Engineer Monk-house-Nikolai Kanadev; Engineer Thornton-Ilya Browde; Engineer Cushny-Peter...
Commander Wiley, who had himself declared an "interested party'' (technical defendant ) in order to attend private hearings and examine witnesses, was firm in defense of Captain McCord's navigation. The weather forecast, he recalled, was for light wind and fog. When lightning was sighted below Philadelphia Captain McCord changed the course from south to northwest. Said Commander Wiley: "Although my own inclination was to go west, he had as much or more information than I and his judgment was just as good as mine. . . ." Later, however, when the ship was heading east at sea, Captain McCord told...
...Wednesday, April 19, the club will hold a concert in Sander's Theatre in celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary. All graduates of the club have been invited to attend. M. A. Shattuck '19, former president of the club, will preside and Dr. R. C. Cabot '89, professor of Social Ethics, will be the principal speaker...
...Professor will be the guest of honor at an informal dinner given in the main dining room of the Faculty Club by Philip Cabot '94, professor of Public Utility Management. The guests will include mostly Boston business men who are planning to attend the address afterwards...