Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilton, N. H., in 1872, educated at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Abbot has been with the Smithsonian Institution since 1895. Able scientists who preceded Dr. Abbot as Secretary of the Smithsonian were: Joseph Henry, who like famed Faraday, worked in early electrical experiments; Spencer Fullerton Baird, naturalist; Samuel Pierpont Langley, father of aerodynamics, whom Dr. Abbot assisted in solar work; Charles Doolittle Walcott, geologist...
...Samuel Huntington Wolcott '03, of Boston and Readville, was appointed Commencement Day marshal for 1928 at a recent meeting of the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. The selection was in accord with the tradition that the marshal shall be a member of the class, which celebrates on Commencement Day the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation from college...
...must seat him, said he. The Senators had heard this argument before, from impartial Senator Borah, whose vote had been for seating Mr. Smith, out of respect to Illinois, then ousting Mr. Smith to punish political simony. After Mr. Smith, the Committee listened to a long-awaited explanation by Samuel Insull, potentate of gas, light and politics in Chicago. Mr. Insull, held in contempt of the Senate last year for refusing to tell who received $40,000 of the $237,925 he passed out for the 1926 primary campaign, testified that the $40,000 had gone equally to two local...
...Fogg Museum has recently received, through the generosity of Samuel Sachs, the Lehrs collection of reproductions numbering over 2,700 pieces. It consists of photographs and photo-mechanical reproductions chiefly of prints, but also of paintings, drawings, wood-carvings, and other objects by the authors of prints, and objects related to prints in design...
...Neill was able to state last week than the bank's assets are $894,663,903, the largest ever reported by a Canadian bank and one of the largest ever reported. Bank headquarters are in Montreal. The president of the board of directors is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt...