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President Lowell will be one of a group of prominent men who are to tour the country during the month of February and speak in behalf of a league of nations at a series of congresses held in large cities. Ex-President William H. Taft will preside at each congress; others in the party are James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, Henry Van Dyke, ex-minister to The Netherlands, Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman of the National War Labor Board,. Mrs. Phillip North Moore, president of the National Council of Women, and Rabbi Wise of the Free Synagogue...
...Congress in Portland, Ore., February 18 and '19; the Far West Congress in Salt Lake City. February 21 and 22; the Mid-Continent Congress in Kansas City, February 24 and 25; and the Southern Congress in Atlanta, February 27 and 28. The League to Enforce Peace is organizing the tour for the purpose of stimulating public interest, and at each rally it is expected that resolutions will be adopted calling for the formation at the peace conference of "a practicable business-like league of nations." Copies of such resolutions will be sent to Versailles and to the United States Senate...
Recently Major Williams made a two and one-half years' tour of the Philippine Islands. Upon his second return to the United States he was stationed at Fort Adams, Rhode Island. After a very short period there he was detailed to the Harvard S. A. T. C. Unit for the purpose of examining candidates for the artillery service and to act as assistant to his father, Colonel Williams...
...decided after an inspection of the Cambridge Common and two other sites for the new buildings of the Radio School, soon to be erected, that the rapid growth of the school would necessitate the taking over of all the available land by the Government. He was accompanied on his tour of inspection by Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, U. S. N., commandant of the First Naval District, and Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel F. Ayer '00, commandant of the Naval Radio School...
Colonel Raynal C. Bolling '00, LL.B. '02, of New York City, according to a cable message received yesterday was killed some time during the last week in March, while on a tour of inspection for the American aviation service in France. He was reported missing on March 25, having driven out to the east of Amiens alone in his automobile and failed to return. On March 29, he was found dead in the car from a bullet wound. Colonel Bolling is the highest ranking officer of the American forces to have been killed in action since the outbreak...