Word: williams
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...occult. Various theories have been elaborated which attempt to explain what are regarded as incontestable facts, but so far with no very satisfactory result. The membership roll of the Society has included many of England's foremost men, Henry Sedgwick, A. J. Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes, Lord Rayleigh, Alfred Russell Wallace and Professor Gilbert Murray...
Professor Frank William Taussig '79, of the Department of Economics, accepted Saturday his appointment by President Wilson to the Federal Tariff Commission. The other members of this commission which will gather information to aid Congress in revising the tariff will be announced later. It is considered probable that Professor Taussig will be made chairman...
...William Roscoe Thayer '84, of Cambridge, and George von L. Meyer '79 will be among the principal speakers at the Congress of Constructive Patriotism, which is to be held by the National Security League in Washington on January 25, 26 and 27. The subject of their addresses will be "America's Position as a World Power." A letter on "Constructive Patriotism," by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '80 will be read. Elihu Root, LL.D., '07, will speak on "America's Present," and Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, and Frederick Winsor '93, headmaster of Middlesex School, will address...
There are to be six positions on the commission. It is rumored that other probable appointees are Daniel L. Roper, former assistant postmaster-general, and William S. Culbertson, who has had much experience with South American trade. Other doubtful reports are to the effect that Miss Ida M. Tarbell will be invited to serve on the commission. It is understood that President Wilson is particularly anxious to have the commission take up the question of changed economic conditions after the war. The personnel of the board will probably be announced this week, so that the appointments may be sent...
...Discussion: "Our World Relations," ex-President William Howard Taft...