Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dalton, Mass., a tablet was last week unveiled "To W. MURRAY CRANE, 1853-1920," one of the great figures in Republican politics in the decade before the War. He was Governor of Massachusetts from 1900 to 1903, and U. S. Senator from 1904 to 1913. He was a staunch party man, although he did not hesitate to oppose his colleagues on occasion, as for example when he supported the League of Nations after the War, opposing his erstwhile colleague, Senator Lodge...
...League. Said M Hymans of Belgium. "The Press is a great power which has a permanent seat in the League of Nations." 4) Throughout the assembly a group of U. S. women headed by Mrs. James E. Neal of N. Y. kept freshly cut flowers on the memorial tablet to President Wilson, which marks the limit of the Garden of the League...
...Dean of the Chapter of St. Paul's Cathedral agreed to permit a memorial tablet to the late John Singer Sargent n the crypt, where the remains of many famous men, including Lord Nelson...
Upon the chairs sat notables, upon a platform more notables. Across the boulder rippled two U. S. flags, behind which, fixed in the stone, a bronze tablet mutely announced: "On this site-1876-1882-Thomas Alva Edison began his work of service for the world. . . . This tablet is placed by the Edison Pioneers...
Near Mr. and Mrs. Edison on the platform was John W. Lieb of the New York Edison Co. He dedicated the tablet and presented it to Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey as a state monument, the latter accepting after Mrs. Edison had unveiled it. President John G. Hibben of Princeton then perorated, with interruptions by a rumbling freight train and a youthful Edisonian who leapt to the fore to declare he would never go to college.*Samuel Insull terminated the speechmaking...