Guggenheim Gifts Memorial Fellowships for Students
Simon Guggenheim established the Memorial Foundation Fellowships with a five million dollar endowment in memory of his son. Unlike the Rhodes scholarship the grants support research and study worldwide without location restrictions and include women as well as men. Guggenheim, a copper magnate, previously served in the U.S. Senate and pursued business and art interests.
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Cecil Rhodes
Simon Guggenheim
John Simon Guggenheim “Memorial Foundation
Foundation
Wouter
Senate
Fragmentary 19th century note on English king and queen
A garbled obituary-like passage mentions Englishmen bearing weight on the king and references King George and King Edward. It alludes to years of interzcolds and bronchitis and recalls royal travels and a visit to Rome, with scattered phrases about Queen Victoria and France.
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George
Victor
Edward
France
Rome
Italian Ambassador Giacomo de Martine Named Real Statesman
Baron Giacomo de Martine of Naples is appointed Italy's ambassador to the United States. A seasoned diplomat educated in London, he has served in Bern Cairo Rome and Berlin and was in Tokyo during the 1933 earthquake. He is expected to boost social and diplomatic activity in Washington as the Italian embassy opens.
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Giacomo de Martine
Italy
United ‘States
Lns
Naples
England
London
Berne
Switzerland
Egypt
Ministry of
Rome
Berlin
Tokyo
Washington
Bing
Johns Hopkins May Become Graduate Focused University
Dr Goodnow, Johns Hopkins president, proposes renaming the institution to emphasize graduate study over undergraduate work. He notes plans to drop the bachelor’s degree and allow entrants to finish with the doctor’s degree in four years, shifting away from a two year college program. He argues Johns Hopkins is well positioned to pioneer this path.
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v.Frank Jonson Goodnow
Johns Hopkins University
Jolns Hopkins
Doctor Goodnow
United States
American University
Johns Hopkins
Goodnow
Striped Tub Silk Two Piece Jumper Frocks Made For Spring
Julia Bottomley describes new striped tub silk fabrics for children’s two piece jumper frocks. She notes washability, bold color tones, and the popularity of the jumper suit style, with designs featuring pockets, plaits, and long ties.
One Day President Put It in Biography
Biography notes that David I. Atchison served as president pro tempore and, as Senate presiding officer, was effectively president for two hours during the 1849 transition when Taylor took oath later. It outlines constitutional succession and prior attempts to clarify the line of succession, including changes in 1793 and 1886, and recounts inauguration days overlapping Sundays.
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Ashington
United States Senate
David I. Atchison
Missouri
Atchison, Kan
Senate
Zachary Taylor
Ali
Taylor
Capitol
Senator Atchison
Atchison
United States
Congress
Ad Viea
House
Kentucky
Washington
Samuel J. Tilden
ASU
Hayes
Marc
Wilson
Embassies Move From Historic Washington D C Landmark Buildings
Old British embassy on lower Connecticut Avenue is abandoned for a modern site near the naval observatory. The Austro Hungarian building is now a cleaning and dyeing shop. Mexican embassy area is a real estate office while the embassy moves to a Sixteenth Street palace. Italian embassy to occupy a million dollar palace. German embassy remains in its pre war location. Historic houses tied to Lincoln era figures and early federal offices face new business use as postwar partitions bring in new legations including Czecho Slovakia Egypt Estonia Finland Latvia Lithuania and Ingo Slavia.
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Old Washington
Lower
Connecticut Avenue
Naval Observatory
Embassy Row
Sixteenth Street
George M. Pull- Tan
Chicago
John Hils Hammond
Czecho-Slovakia
Egypt
Esthenia
Finland
Latvia
Lithuania
Ingo- Slavia
Fon
Bernstorff
Washington
Germany
Surratt
Lincoln
Daniel Webster
Stidell
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
John Hay
Bartley Chosen As Dawes Secretary In White House
Correspondent Ross Bartley selected by Vice President Dawes as his secretary due to energy efficiency and judgment. Bartley began in journalism after college in Indiana and rose through United Press and Associated Press to Washington bureau. He traveled with General Dawes during the campaign and accompanied President Harding on prior travels.
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Associated Press
Dawes
Bartley
Washington
Harding
White House
Daves
Mr. Bartley
Effie Ross Bartley
Brookston
Ind
Indiana University
Wilmington
United Press
Indianapolis
New York
Ohio State Journal
Columbus
Pittsburgh
Senate
Congress
New Geographical Areas in Cabinet RESVENT COOLIDGE
New Cabinet appointees under President Coolidge introduce Minnesota and Kansas as holding secretary portfolios for the first time. The text notes a strong bias toward founders era states and lists notable secretaries from New York Ohio Maine Kentucky and others, with 45 secretaries since 1776.
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Coolidge
Minnesota
New York
Jon Jay
John Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
Kentucky
Virginia
Jackson
Edward Livingston
Louisiana
Pelican
Buchanan
Lewis Cass
Michigan
Grant
Ellen Washburne
Hitnois
James Gillespie Blaine
Maine
Garfeld
Benjamin Harrison
John W. Fnster
Indiana
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Dr. Goodnow
Florida
California
Atke
Julia Bottomley
Western Newspaper Union
National Capitalaw Affairs
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