Word: cabots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puzzled by the nervousness with which famed Artist John Singer Sargent undertook a portrait of her husband, Mrs. Wilson found that Sargent had been talking to Henry Cabot Lodge, who had told him that the portrait "presented a great opportunity for the artist to serve his Party." Reason: Sargent's skill in finding the animal counterparts of human beings, "thus reveal some hidden beastly trait...
Basic question the U. S. press immediately asked was: had this Democratic President made any commitments comparable to the moral ones assumed by the last Democratic President with regard to "foreign entanglements"? To his full height in the Senate rose young Henry Cabot Lodge, grandson and namesake of one of the men who drove Woodrow Wilson wild on the League of Nations issue, to ask the Secretary of the Treasury for a full accounting of the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, to see if any financial commitments were implied by the President's program. Senator Lodge...
History. In 1919, the "secrecy" of their framing was the charge with which Senators Philander Knox and Henry Cabot Lodge I started the depopularizing of Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations Covenant before they reached the Senate. No charge could have been more unjust or illegal.* Yet this week, as the Senate geared itself for high-powered, full-dress debate on Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, "secrecy" faced Franklin Roosevelt as a charge and an issue likely to impede his National Defense program and other important legislation. No such giants of debate as Woodrow...
...President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, former vice-president and Dean of Engineering at M.I.T.; John P. Higgins '17, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts; Franklin E. Parker, Jr. '18, President of the American Arbitration Association and Director of the New York Legal Aid Society; Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. '24, Senator from Massachusetts; Thomas E. Eliot '28, former General Counsel of the Social Security Board...
Several of the less known phases of research work now being carried on at the Biological Laboratories are being backed by the Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research. At present two of its more notable fields of research are those in which assistant professor Kenneth V. Thimann is working on auxin and Dr. Carl Sachs on colchicene. For some time botanists had been trying to find a way to reproduce plants by other than the normal reproductive cycle in the plant; in other words by a vegetative method. After auxin had been found and made, it was Thimann discovered that when...