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 Thomas Dudley Cabot biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Thomas Dudley Cabot (May 1, 1897 - June 8, 1995) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Godfrey Lowell Cabot and Maria Buckminster (Moors) Cabot.
He served as the CEO of the Cabot Corporation from 1922 to 1960 (the company was founded by his father); and was named the first director of the Office of International Security Affairs in 1950, where he worked as a consultant to the U. Department of State.
Cabot was named as president of the newly-formed company, Radio Swan, which claimed to represent Cuban exiles, but was actually a covert project controlled by the CIA to win supporters for U.S. policies and discredit Castro.
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 Godfrey Lowell Cabot -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Godfrey Lowell Cabot (February 26, 1861 - November 2, 1962), was born in (additional info and facts about Boston, Massachusetts) Boston, Massachusetts, (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) USA, the son of Samuel Cabot, a physician, and Hannah Lowell Jackson.
He gave $647,700 to (An engineering university in Cambridge) MIT in 1930 to support solar research, resulting in important discoveries in (Branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light) photochemistry and thermal electricity and in the construction of experimental solar houses.
The Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library at (A university in Massachusetts) Harvard University's Science Center is named after him.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/go/godfrey_lowell_cabot.htm   (259 words)

  
 slovenia.ca - Godfrey Lowell Cabot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In April 1938, Godfrey Lowell Cabot gave MIT a...
Godfrey Lowell Cabot was born in Boston on 26 February 1861, the....
The Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library is Harvard University's principal general science library, with special...
www.slovenia.ca /Godfrey-Lowell-Cabot/reference/fullview/wikipedia/671435   (197 words)

  
 Thomas D. Cabot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cabot was director emeritus of the petrochemical manufacturer Cabot Corp., and still went to his office fairly regularly.
His father, Godfrey Lowell Cabot, attended MIT for one year in 1877-78 and graduated from Harvard with a degree in chemistry in 1881.
Thomas Cabot was born in Cambridge into one of Boston's oldest families on May 1, 1897, the son of Godfrey and Maria Moors Cabot.
www-tech.mit.edu /V115/N29/cabot.29n.html   (377 words)

  
 Family
Cabot family The Cabot family of Boston Brahmin clans.
Family Affair Family Affair was a butler (Cabot) also has adjustments to make as he is usually saddled with the responsi...
Lowell family The Lowell family is a Massachusetts.
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 Solomon Court at Cabot Center
Solomon Court at Cabot Center is on the left at corner of Huntington Avenue and Forsyth Street.
Cabot is home to the Husky athletics department as well as some fine facilities.
The building, named for beneficiary Godfrey Lowell Cabot in 1957, sits on the former site of the Huntington Avenue Grounds, where the first World Series was played in 1903 between Boston and Pittsburgh.
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TEXT: The Cabot Prize is presented to reporters and editors in recognition of outstanding coverage of the Western Hemisphere, in particular Latin America and the Caribbean.
She says the Cabot Prize is not just an honor, it is a "shield" that can protect journalists from violent attacks led by groups or states that are hostile to the press.
It was founded in 1938 and first awarded in 1939 by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife.
www.help-for-you.com /news/Oct2002/scripts/285e19c4.html   (436 words)

  
 Architects and Buildings: Architecture: Subject Guides: MIT Libraries
Cabot was won over by Bush's proposal for flat plate sun collectors, whose flat fl metallic surfaces would be covered by transparent insulators and heated by absorbing the sun's energy.
Cabot was immediately enthusiastic, although Vannevar Bush himself seemed to be more reserved: "even if the long study is unfruitful in producing useful sun energy conversion, it will nevertheless undoubtedly yield fundamental knowledge of benefit to the human race in many ways."
From 1938-1988 (the 50-year period stipulated by the Cabot endowment), a series of six experimental or prototypical solar houses were built.
libraries.mit.edu /guides/subjects/architecture/architects/solar   (239 words)

  
 Lloyd Williams Awarded Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Exellence in Reporting on Latin America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Now, in their 62nd year, the Cabot awards are presented to reporters and editors who have reported on the Southern Hemisphere, and through their coverage demonstrated compassion and commitment to freedom of the press and inter-American understanding.
The Cabot Prizes were presented September 27 at a ceremony on the campus of Columbia University by Columbia President, George Rupp and Journalism School Dean, Tom Goldstein.
Founded in 1938, (and first awarded in 1939) by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife, the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes are administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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 Francis Cabot Lowell (from Lowell family) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The son of Judge John Lowell, Francis Cabot Lowell was born in Newburyport, Mass., on April 7, 1775.
A prominent and gifted Massachusetts family, the Lowells included, among others, the founder of the first textile mill in the United States, Francis Cabot Lowell; a major literary figure, James Russell Lowell; an astronomer and founder of the Lowell Observatory, Percival Lowell; one of Harvard University's most significant presidents, Abbott Lawrence Lowell; and two...
England later claimed all of North America on the ground that Cabot was the first explorer to reach the mainland.
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 Alibris: Lowell
Lowell's narrative of her exciting story about her sea voyage and exploration of jungles in Central America.
Lowell's poems represent three phases of his creative life: his early, tightly formal poems dealing with religious and classical subjects; the looser, more personal style of the poems in LIFE STUDIES; and, toward the end of his life, more densely textured, concise, and elegiac poems such as those in his Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, THE DOLPHIN.
Lowell's classic novel "Sweet Wind, Wild Wind" is paired with McCauley's brand-new "A Wolf River Summer" in this two-in-one volume that makes an ideal choice for readers to relax with on a long, hot summer night.
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 Francis Cabot Lowell --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
American businessman, a member of the gifted Lowell family of Massachusetts and the principal founder of what is said to have been the world's first textile mill in which were performed all operations converting raw cotton into finished cloth.
Francis Cabot Lowell was largely responsible, however, for raising the state to its manufacturing eminence.
Lowell went to England to study methods of textile operations and built a power...
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 MHS | Godfrey Lowell Cabot Papers, 1870-1962 : Guide to the Collection
Also includes papers related to Cabot's involvement in aviation including correspondence and subject files related to patents, the Aero Club of New England, the Aero Pickup Service Corps; and papers related to Cabot's role as U.S. Navy pilot during World War I, 1917-18.
Godfrey Lowell Cabot was born in Boston on 26 February 1861, the son of Samuel and Hannah Lowell (Jackson) Cabot.
In addition, Cabot was a famous aviation pioneer, a U.S. Navy pilot during World War I, and a noted philanthropist.
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 NET FOR CUBA INTERNATIONAL - US Department Reports
The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes for 2003, administered by the university's graduate school of journalism, cited La Sociedad for "an unprecedented demonstration of courage and professionalism at enormous personal cost" during the latest wave of repression undertaken against dissidents by the regime of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The Cabot special citations (which are awarded only sporadically) are intended to honor organizations or individuals that, despite the lack of a traditional large body of work over many years, have significantly contributed to journalism, the university said in a statement.
The Cabot prizes are awarded by the Trustees of Columbia University on the recommendation of Columbia's Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism and the Cabot prize board, which is composed of journalists and educators concerned with Western Hemisphere affairs.
www.netforcuba.org /Terrorism-EN/USGovernmentReports/2003/USGovernmentsReports-0036.htm   (718 words)

  
 The Massachusetts Historical Society | On View
Its average air speed was 31 miles per hour and, as Chanute writes to Cabot, the Wrights had managed on December 17 to fly it four successful times, the longest flight recorded at 57 seconds.
These three photographs and the letter to Henry Cabot Lodge are taken from the Massachusetts Historical Society's collection of the photographs and papers of Godfrey Lowell Cabot, who was the brother of Chanute's correspondent, Samuel Cabot.
Godfrey Lowell Cabot later patented a device for picking objects from the ground while in flight and an innovative method of in-flight refueling.
www.masshist.org /objects/2003december.cfm   (444 words)

  
 Embassy of the United States of America - Montevideo, Uruguay
Founded by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife, the Cabot Prizes are awarded each fall to three or four journalists in the Western Hemisphere who, through their sustained and distinguished body of work, have contributed to Inter-American understanding.
Entries will be judged by a Cabot Prize Board comprising journalists and educators concerned with hemisphere affairs, headed by the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism.
The Cabot Prize Board and the dean look for exceptional reporting and evidence of commitment to important stories over the course of a long and distinguished career.
uruguay.usembassy.gov /usaweb/paginas/260-00EN.shtml   (585 words)

  
 Barletta Natatorium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cabot Center is full of amenities for Husky swimmers.
It is the home to the Husky athletics department as well as a 2300-square-foot weight room, racquetball courts, an indoor track, rowing tanks and a cardiovascular room.
Cabot is currently undergoing a major renovation, one that includes a redesigned gym as well as the construction of a hospitality suite and academic center.
gonu.com /facilities/barletta.html   (407 words)

  
 Godfrey of Bouillon --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
The dramatist and poet Thomas Godfrey was a playwright and poet in colonial America.
His play The Prince of Parthia is thought to be the first one written by an American and performed by a professional company.
The U.S. radio and television entertainer Arthur Godfrey was widely popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
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 History - Cabot Science Library - Harvard College Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Godfrey Lowell Cabot Science Library is Harvard University's principal general science library, with special emphasis on research collections in mathematics, statistics, and science-related interdisciplinary studies.
Opened in 1973, the library was named in honor of Godfrey Lowell Cabot (1861–1962), Class of 1882, an industrial chemist, manufacturer of carbon fl, aviation pioneer, and benefactor of the sciences.
Under the stewardship of Dr. Alan E. Erickson, who served as librarian from the library's inception until his retirement at the end of 1991, Cabot rapidly became one of the busiest libraries on campus.
hcl.harvard.edu /libraries/cabot/history.html   (274 words)

  
 Cabot Prizes Awarded to Latin American Journalists
Photograph: Cabot winner Canute W. James spoke after receiving his prize.
The Cabot Prizes have been awarded annually by Columbia since 1939 to journalists of the Western hemisphere for distinguished contributions to inter-American understanding and freedom of information.
They were established by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife.
www.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss9/record2109.23.html   (1255 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Columbia to Award Cabot Prizes to Four Journalists for Excellence in Reporting on Latin America
Now in their 63rd year, the Cabot awards are presented to reporters and editors who have covered the Southern Hemisphere and, through their coverage, demonstrated commitment to freedom of the press and inter-American understanding.
Founded in 1938 (and first awarded in 1939) by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife, the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes are administered by the School of Journalism.
For the third consecutive year, the award ceremony will be held as a benefit to raise scholarship funds for international students, especially students from Latin America.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/01/07/cabot.html   (596 words)

  
 Wabash College: English Crawfordsville, Indiana
The Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America honors journalists who have covered the Western Hemisphere and, through their reporting and editorial work, have demonstrated a commitment to freedom of the press and inter-American understanding.
"This year's winners are wonderful exemplars of the Cabot Prize standard — the best professional and probing journalism in the pursuit of inter-American understanding," said Nicholas Lemann, dean of the journalism school.
Founded in 1938 by the late Godfrey Lowell Cabot of Boston as a memorial to his wife, the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes are the oldest international award in journalism.
www.wabash.edu /academics/english/departments.cfm?pages_id=83&news_ID=2636   (614 words)

  
 Communication professor to head Stanford in Washington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He served as a foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance and the New York Times, as Washington bureau chief for the Detroit News, and as London bureau chief and diplomatic correspondent for NBC News.
From 1970 to 1979, Abel was the Godfrey Lowell Cabot Professor and Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He also served as the U.S. member of UNESCO's International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the 21st General Conference of UNESCO in Yugoslavia.
www.stanford.edu /dept/news/relaged/930317Arc3363.html   (432 words)

  
 Radio Haiti Reporter Wins Prestigious Cabot Journalism Award - 2002-10-10
The winners of the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prize for international journalism are being honored in New York.
The Cabot Prize is presented to reporters and editors in recognition of outstanding coverage of the Western Hemisphere, in particular Latin America and the Caribbean.
But for someone who has been passionate about Latin-America, and all of these winners have been all their lives, it is the top of the mountain," he said.
www.voanews.com /english/archive/2002-10/a-2002-10-10-35-Radio.cfm   (515 words)

  
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Individuals who are winners receive Cabot Gold Medals, news organizations a plaque; each receives a $1,000 honorarium.
Konner also introduced the Cabot Scholars in the Journalism Class of '94: Victor Gonzalez of Seattle, Wash., and Lynn Ventura, a lawyer from Miami, Fla. The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes have been awarded annually by Columbia since 1939 to journalists of the Western Hemisphere for distinguished contributions to inter-American understanding and freedom of information.
His death made headlines everywhere, and Governor Mario Cuomo, Mayor David Dinkins, and former mayor Ed Koch were among the civic leaders attending a memorial mass celebrated by John Cardinal O'Connor in St. Patrick's Cathedral, one of three memorial masses to be held.
www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol19/vol19_iss10/record1910.16   (1451 words)

  
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The Godfrey Lowell Cabot Scholarship, established in 1951 by the Cabot Carbon Company in honor of Godfrey Lowell Cabot, the income to be used as a yearly scholarship to a deserving student of the School of Engineering.
The Cabot Corporation Scholarship Fund, established in 1955 by Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., of Boston, the income to be used for scholarship aid for deserving students in any school or department of the university.
In making the awards, preference is to be given to an otherwise qualified son or daughter of an employee of Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., and its subsidiary companies.
ase.tufts.edu /bulletin/scholarships.html   (18087 words)

  
 The Massachusetts Historical Society
Also included are forms signed by sailors directing that portions of their salaries be paid to their families, and other papers relating to payments for services.
Also included are papers related to Cabot's involvement in aviation including correspondence and subject files related to patents, the Aero Club of New England, the Aero Pickup Service Corps, 1892-1959; and papers related to Cabot's role as U.S. Navy pilot during World War I, 1917-1918.
The papers of George von Lengerke Meyer (1858-1918), businessman, legislator, United States Ambassador to Italy and Russia, Postmaster General and Secretary of the Navy, consist of thirty-five archival boxes of loose manuscripts and 57 bound volumes of letterbooks and scrapbooks.
www.history.navy.mil /sources/ma/mah.htm   (1209 words)

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