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* Robert Lansing ( 1916 ), Secretary of State exercising direct control over the Bureau of Secret Intelligence
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United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris in 1919.
He was also in Jean Kerr's 1973 Broadway farce Finishing Touches, with Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Lansing, James Woods, and others.
On October 5, Secretary of State Robert Lansing was the first official to propose that Marshall forcibly assume the presidency.
In 1969, Barrett received the Robert Lansing Hardy Award of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, and remains a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Both his grandfather, John W. Foster, and his uncle, Robert Lansing, had served as Secretary of State.
In 1918, Woodrow Wilson appointed Dulles as legal counsel to the United States delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference where he served under his uncle, Robert Lansing, then Secretary of State.
Robert Lansing ( October 17, 1864 – October 30, 1928 ) served in the position of Legal Advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I where he vigorously advocated against Britain's policy of blockade and in favor of the principles of freedom of the seas and the rights of neutral nations.
State Senator Robert Lansing ( 1799 – 1878 ) was his grandfather ; Chancellor John Lansing, Jr. and State Treasurer Abraham G. Lansing were his great-granduncles.
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* 1916 – Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis ( d. 1978 )
In 1916, under the British Board of Invention and Research, Canadian physicist Robert William Boyle took on the active sound detection project with A B Wood, producing a prototype for testing in mid 1917.
The French counter offensive devised by General Robert Nivelle was one of a number of Allied successes of 1916.
Robert Strange McNamara ( June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009 ) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Robert Mills Gagné ( August 21, 1916 – April 28, 2002 ) was an American educational psychologist best known for his " Conditions of Learning ".
* William Robert Smith ( 1863 – 1924 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Texas ( 1903 – 1916 )
Later, in 1916, while in Barcelona and within a small circle of refugee artists that included Marie Laurencin and Robert and Sonia Delaunay, he started his well-known Dada periodical 391, modeled on Stieglitz's own periodical.
* Bronze sculpture of Robert Emmet ( 1916 ), by Jerome Stanley Connor, in Emmet Park, Washington, DC ( photos )
While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. View of the campus from Coles Tower ( constructed as the " Senior Center "), the second tallest building in Maine Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954.
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