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...rulers, statesmen, educators and dignitaries in the four corners of the world. Ready for the diners' inspection were nine of the ten extant oil-paintings (among them an Orpen, a La very, a Salisbury*) of the man they were honoring. Elaborate souvenir programs and menus were printed. Two dollar Wedgwood plates depicting Columbia scenes were to be distributed to each & every guest. New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning would bless their food. President James Rowland Angell of Yale University. Author John Erskine (Columbia, 1900). Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (Columbia, 1889) of the New York Court of Appeals...
...bearing the Indian delegates, drew nearer to London. From its wireless room came stronger and stronger appeals to the Mahatma to drop his immediate grievance, represent his 270,000,000 Hindus at the Round Table. During the feverish last hours of the British Government which fell fortnight ago. William Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for India, insisted that Viceroy Willingdon meet with and conciliate the Mahatma. Finally, last week, the little brown man himself asked for a conference with the Viceroy. The Viceroy would not agree to the establishment of an impartial tribunal to investigate alleged breaches of the Delhi...
...another scientist's wife has struggled with her famed husband's indifference to practical life, his desire for isolation. Louis Pasteur (1822-95) French chemist, obtained protection by marrying the rector's daughter of Strasburg Academy while he was professor at the University of Strasburg. Emma Wedgwood of the English pottery family became the wife of her cousin, young Charles Darwin (1809-82). Although she loved theatres, gay parties, she was very religious, regretted that Charles was not. He made her promise, however, never to interfere with his work on Evolution. During acute attacks...
...scene opened each day, all press correspondents were rigorously excluded, the British Government strategically obliging even the Indian press to apply for information and handouts of speeches to Capt. Wedgwood Benn, His Majesty's Secretary of State for India...
Capt. William Wedgwood Benn Secretary of State for India...