Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Monsieur Huguts LeRoux, the well-known French author and explorer, will be the guest of honor at a meeting of the Cercle Francais in the Cercle rooms, Grays 17, tonight at 7.15. Monsieur LeRoux is a special envoy to President Wilson, and is endeavoring to arouse sentiment for the French in this country. He is editor of the Paris paper "Le Matin," and the author of numerous works on exploration. He is an officer in the Legion of Honor, and a famous diplomat...
...Hugues LeRoux, the well-known French author, explorer, officer in the Paris "Matin," will lecture in the Union on "Le Francais d'aujourd 'hui," or "L'Etat d'ame de la France," next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. LeRoux is now engaged on a special mission to President Wilson and Secretary Bryan from the French secretary of foreign affairs. He made many explorations in Africa; discovered a new tribe in Abyssinia, and organized the first French camel-corps on the desert of Sahara. He has been active in the promotion of boys' sports in France, and has produced...
...before the Law School Society at Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Professor Frankfurter will introduce the speaker, who is one of Boston's leading lawyers. Mr. Brandeis is prominent through his brilliant work as counsel in several cases of national importance, and is the author of several articles on the trusts, labor unions, and various pieces of legislation. He has recently been arguing for the minimum wage law before the Supreme Court of the United States...
...smug "scientific philanthropist," at last convinced by sad experience of his own inability to help his fellowmen by mere doles of money, is converted, not to a more humane sort of philanthropy, but to golf! Possibly the characters in the story would be more life-like if the author had let them speak more for themselves; the setting and atmosphere are well handled. The unexpected "denouement" confronts one again in Mr. Burke's clever dramatic sketch, "Discipline," in which the reader comes to realize only at the end that he has been reading a play within a play. The shock...
...Adams was the author of many books on American history, was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. One of his most notable books is a biography of his father, Charles Francis Adams, ambassador to England during the Civil War, who was the son of President John Quincy Adams...