Word: fitz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the memory of Alice Freeman Palmer was honored at New York University when her venerable husband, gowned in his academic robes, unveiled a bust by Evelyn Longman in the Hall of Fame. The likeness was given by Wellesley College, the presentation made by Dr. Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley, the speech in praise of Mrs. Palmer and her great importance to the nation delivered in a simple and appreciative manner by Dr. James R. Angell of Yale University...
...Paul Fitz Simons of Manhattan and Newport is back of a plan to revive the air route between the two cities. Last year successful operation by the Loening Aircraft Co. was terminated by a fatal accident to H. Cary Morgan (TIME, July 30), but the route remains a most promising one, and the airport (built at great expense by the Newport Chamber of Commerce) is still available. To avoid the treacherous air currents and busy traffic of the East River, or the lower Hudson, the planes would fly between Newport and New Haven, connecting with fast New York trains. Instead...
...plan," he continued, "it essentially one of cooperation with the other nations of the world, not a peace plan. It may be a very short step, yet it is a step in the right direction." As Miss Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College and member of the Jury of Award, said at the luncheon: "The step is an exceedingly short one, but it is the longest the American people are prepared to take...
...certain necessary and almost inevitable modifications of the Covenant of the League, it acknowledges that we should be a member of the League, and it proposes an immediate step in the direction of membership. The Jury of Award--consisting of Elihu Root, James Guthrie Harbord, Edward M. House, Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Roscoe Pound, William Allen White, and Brand Whitlock--has endorsed this plan as the best, part- ly because it represents the general opinions expressed by the 22, 156 plans placed before the Jury...
Seven good men and true, Democrats and Republicans from several walks of life, constituted the Jury of Award: Elihu Root, Secretary of State under Roosevelt, Chairman; General James Guthrie Harbord, Chief of Staff of the A. E F.; Colonel Edward M. House, familiar of Woodrow Wilson; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Kansas editor; Brand Whitlock, U. S. Minister to Belgium during...