Word: maces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ottawa. . . . The old Parliament reassembled for the first time since that day in 1942 when Hitler had sat in the Speaker's chair and Mr. James Maxton [sharp-tongued Labor M.P.] had been shot dead as he rushed forward to brain the Führer with the Mace...
Travel Notes--We were happy to receive word of the appointment of Mr. Myles L. Mace and Mr. Robert S. McNamara of the original Stat School civilian faculty, to Captain. Both officers are on active duty overseas. Mr. Harry Hausen and Mr. Vigo Nielson are on duty in Florida, while both Mr. Jackson Glover and Captain Ross F. Jones are in Miami selecting the students of Class 8-43, due here April...
King and Lords accepted him, the doorkeeper of the Commons announced: "Speaker elected." Brown entered the Speaker's House, donned his full-bottomed wig and the Speaker's traditional large black gown. Then the Sergeant at Arms, majestically carrying the gold mace of royal authority over his shoulder, marched Brown to the Chair of the House. Brown sat down: he was Britain's 139th Speaker of the Commons...
...Sergeant at Arms walked up the aisle, removed the heavy gold mace from the table before the Speaker's chair. A hush settled on the House of Commons. A clerk spoke, in flat tones: "It is with extreme sorrow I have to inform the House that Mr. Speaker died this afternoon...
...Relations Committee as appointed by President James B. Conant, and voted by the Corporation last May is Emery L. Chaffee '07, professor of Physics. Other members are Raymond Dennett '35, graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks, Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek, Latin and History, Myles L. Mace, assistant professor of Business and Government, and Edwin C. Kemble, chairman of the Physics Department...