Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard big-wigs crowded the auditorium of the four-story building to hear addresses by President Conant, Dean Williams, Charles Francis Adams '88, president of the Board of Overseers, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, Albert F. Bigelow '03, and Littauer himself, who just a year ago laid the cornerstone in a driving rain...
Held in connection with the annual wo-day meeting of the University Board of Overseers, the affair will keynote addresses by President Conant, Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, John H. Williams, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, and Lucius N. Littauer '78 of New York City, donor of the building...
Williamsburg, capital of colonial Virginia, was one of the gayest musical spots in unmusical 18th-Century America. Musical centre of this musical spot was the colonial governor's palace. In its spacious salons, between sessions of the Virginia Legislature, such distinguished amateurs as Thomas Jefferson gathered to make sweet music on viols, flutes, harpsichords. Now Williamsburg, restored by the Rockefellers, looks much as it did 200 years ago. But for Colonial Williamsburg Inc., looks were not enough. It wanted to restore the sweet sounds...
Last year, on the advice of Carleton Sprague Smith, affable Manhattan librarian and expert on early U. S. music, a harpsichord was obtained for the governor's palace, and U. S. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick was hired to put on a festival of 18th-Century music. So successful was Williamsburg's first music festival that in the autumn another was given...
...William Tudor Gardiner, twice Governor of Maine and now head of Boston's Incorporated Investors, raised Nathaniel Drummond ("Nat") Moore to the presidency of his $10,000,000 Pacific Coast Co. (railroads, steamships, mines, cement factories), succeeding Thomas Arthur Davies, who resigned to handle personal interests. Grey-haired Nat Moore has worked for Pacific Coast for 40 years, knows his 1,000 employes by their first names...