Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Highlights of the tremendous program which is planned for the Bay State Tercentenary in 1930 include a permanent memorial to commemorate the Founders of the colony, a musical festival, commemorative observances especially related to the development of the law of the Commonwealth in which the Harvard Law School will probably participate, and, as a climax, a magnificent celebration on July 15 which is planned to be the most splendid and stately occasion ever seen in this country...
...Evans Hughes of Manhattan, George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey in Washington and Steelman Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland (elected last week), the board includes new-risen leaders of business and finance like President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co., Harry B. Gear of Commonwealth Edison Co., Charles Revell Holden of the Union Trust Co., Robert L. Scott of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. (department store), Albert W. Sherer of Lord & Thomas and Logan (advertising agents), John Stuart of Quaker Oats Co. (Chairman of Princeton's trustees...
...national committee which the once "insane" Clifford Whittingham Beers organized has successfully toiled in all states to improve the custody and treatment of the mentally unbalanced. With the help of Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness' commonwealth fund, it has established child guidance clinics to prevent mental troubles, Twenty-seven other countries have taken up the movement. Their representatives will meet at Washington next May as the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene. President Hoover is honorary president of the congress. Dr. William Alanson White of St. Elizabeth Hospital, Washington, who spoke lengthily at the Manhattan dinner last week, is actual...
That persons who flagrantly violate the traffic ordinances on the way to or from the Harvard-Yale football game will be "promptly taken off the highway" was announced by G. A. Parker, Registrar of Motor Vehicles in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plans for the thorough policing of roads to the Stadium have been made in an effort to prevent accidents resulting from the heavy traffic...
Seven Oxford and Cambridge men are studying in the various graduate schools of Harvard, it was learned yesterday, under fellowships awarded annually by the Commonwealth Fund...