Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edgar A. Bancroft, newly appointed Ambasssador to Japan, recently left Washington after having received his parting instructions...
Some of the other books are "The Sense of Immortality," by Philip Cabot '94, "The Philosophy of Character," by Edgar Pierce '92, and "A Present Day Conception of Mental Disorders" by C. H. Campbell...
John Grier Hibben, Hon, '17, president of Princeton University, heads the list of honorary vice-chairmen of the league, Mary E. Wooley, president of Mt. Holyoke College, Edwin A. Alderman. Hon. '09, president of Virginia University, Henry L. Smith, president of Washington and Lee, Edgar O. Lovett, president of Rice Institute, and Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Dean of Barnard College, are on the list of vice-chairmen who will assist President Eliot in the task of organizing the drive for members...
Ambassadors are exchangeable commodities. When Washington announced (TIME, Sept. 8, NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that it was sending Edgar Addison Bancroft to Tokyo as U. S. Ambassador to Japan, Tokyo scouted about to find someone to send to Washington as Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. in succession to smiling Ambassador Masanao Hanihara...
...Edgar Addison Bancroft, 66, born at Galesburg, Ill., now living at Chicago, is a descendant of the New England Bancrofts, including Aaron, biographer of George Washington, and George, diplomat and historian. Educated at Knox College and the Columbia University Law School, he has been counsel for the Santa Fe Railway and the International Harvester Co. In the great railway strike of 1894, he obtained the first injunction against the strikers and later helped to send Eugene V. Debs and others to jail for six months. Nevertheless, he is regarded as a liberal in labor matters. He is author of three...