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...engravings were hung in homes, and his likeness graced snuffboxes and signet rings. The fad went so far as to mildly annoy, though still amuse, King Louis XVI himself. He gave a lady of his court, who had bored him often with her praise of Franklin, a Sevres porcelain chamber pot with Franklin's cameo embossed inside. Neither the King nor his ministers were instinctive champions of America's desire, which they correctly feared might prove contagious, to cast off hereditary monarchs. But the combination of Franklin's realist and idealist appeals eventually brought France into the war on America...
...press conference in the grand staircase of the State House, organized and led by fiery Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner ’62. After a dozen speakers railed at length against the cuts in social services, the protesters marched up the staircase to the doors of the House chamber where legislators sat in session...
...Mary H. Power, Harvard’s senior director of community relations, said that Lucey is well-equipped to deal with all aspects of Cambridge, and she says in his post at the Chamber of Commerce he actively worked with several neighborhoods...
...addition to three years as president and chief executive officer of the Chamber of Commerce, Lucey has served as director of community relations at Forest City Enterprises, a real estate company that developed University Park near MIT, and worked in the state legislature...
Harvard has tapped the current head of Cambridge’s Chamber of Commerce to be the University’s main representative to the city—a pick that has already drawn criticism from some local activists...