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Postmaster General in Union Monday

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Mr. George von L. Meyer '79, postmaster general of the United States, will speak in the Living Room of the Union next Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. His subject will be "The Post Office and Proposed Changes Therein"; he will discuss postal savings banks and parcel post on rural routes.

Mr. Meyer was graduated from Harvard in 1879 and entered the mercantile business. He served on the Boston Common Council and on the Board of Aldermen and was a member of the Massachusetts legislature from 1894-96. In 1900, Mr. Meyer was appointed ambassador to Italy, where he remained until 1905, in which year he was transferred to St. Petersburg as ambassador to Russia. He was recalled in 1907 in order to become a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet, as postmaster general.

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