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After Mr. Meyer was graduated from Harvard in 1879, he entered the mercantile business in Boston. In 1889, he became a member of the Boston Common Council and later served on the Board of Aldermen. From 1892 to 1896 he was in the Massachusetts legislature; during the last two years he presided as Speaker of the House. Four years later Mr. Meyer was appointed American ambassador to Italy, a post which he filled until 1905. In that year, he became ambassador to Russia, and occupied the position till 1907, when he was recalled to become postmaster general in President Roosevelt...
...board chess match last evening the University team easily won from Brown by the score of 7 1-2 games to 1 1-2 in the Chess Club rooms, Grays 20. Harvard had white on the odd boards. The Clark-McCoy match was unfinished, and will be adjudicated by Mr. Helms of New York. The outcome of the game will probably be a draw. The score of the match was as follows: HARVARD. BROWN. Clark. McCoy. Gruening, 1 Freeman, 0 Johnson, 1/2 Corp, 1/2 Dimock, 1 Meckel, 0 Childs, 1/2 Gretseh, 1/2 Parshley, 1 Draper, 0 Davis, 1 Conant...
...Meyer was graduated from Harvard in 1879 and entered the mercantile business. He served on the Boston Common Council and on the Board of Aldermen and was a member of the Massachusetts legislature from 1894-96. In 1900, Mr. Meyer was appointed ambassador to Italy, where he remained until 1905, in which year he was transferred to St. Petersburg as ambassador to Russia. He was recalled in 1907 in order to become a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet, as postmaster general...
...BOARD OF OVERSEERS. Special Meeting at 50 State street, Boston...
...find "graft," said Mr. Steffens, is to go to a "grafter" for it. The board of aldermen in every city of the country are corrupt, and betray the confidence of the people whom they represent. The American government no longer represents the whole nation, but only its worst and most unscrupulous part...