Sir Robert Menzies

Name:  MENZIES, ROBERT GORDON, SIR (1894–1978) 
Activity:  Prime ministers Lawyers 
Date Range:  10 October 1966 - 4 January 1967 
Quantity:  20 cm. 
Description:  Tapes of Sir Robert Menzies lectures delivered at the University of Virginia incl. introduction by Dean Hardy Dillard, Dean of Law School Univ. of Virginia; lecture "constitutional structure and the amending power" 10 October 1966; lecture "growth of Commonwealth power through judicial interpretation" 24 October 1966; lecture "the judiciary and problems of defence" 7 November 1966; lecture "Commonwealth constitution provision re. Commonwealth taxation" 21 November 1966; "banking power of Commonwealth" 4 January 1967; "South East Asia and Vietnam" undated. Photographs of Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson; University of Virginia Hall 1969; Cabell Hall, University of Virginia; superimposed image of Thomas Jefferson; Newcomb Hall; the rotunda of the Library of Virginia; "University of Virginia academical village". Also letter from William H. Crook to Sir Robert sending "Voice of America" tapes of the lectures he presented to the Faculty and students of the University of Virginia from October 1966 to January 1967, 17 April 1969. 
Listed:  Yes listed 
Accession Number:  75 / 52 
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• Details

  Accession Number: 75/52

  Name: MENZIES, ROBERT GORDON, SIR (1894–1978)
  Sex: Male
  Group: Other, individuals

  Activity:Prime ministers
  Lawyers

  Location:Melbourne

  Historical Note: On his retirement from politics in 1966, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies became Scholar-in-residence at the University of Virginia, U.S.A. On his return in 1967, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Melbourne where he had graduated and in which he had always maintained a warm interest.

  Earliest Date: 1966
  Latest Date: 1967
  Access: Open
  Quantity: 20 cm.

  Description: Tapes of Sir Robert Menzies lectures delivered at the University of Virginia incl. introduction by Dean Hardy Dillard, Dean of Law School Univ. of Virginia; lecture "constitutional structure and the amending power" 10 October 1966; lecture "growth of Commonwealth power through judicial interpretation" 24 October 1966; lecture "the judiciary and problems of defence" 7 November 1966; lecture "Commonwealth constitution provision re. Commonwealth taxation" 21 November 1966; "banking power of Commonwealth" 4 January 1967; "South East Asia and Vietnam" undated. Photographs of Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson; University of Virginia Hall 1969; Cabell Hall, University of Virginia; superimposed image of Thomas Jefferson; Newcomb Hall; the rotunda of the Library of Virginia; "University of Virginia academical village". Also letter from William H. Crook to Sir Robert sending "Voice of America" tapes of the lectures he presented to the Faculty and students of the University of Virginia from October 1966 to January 1967, 17 April 1969.

  Persons:Crook, William H.
  Dillard, Hardy

  Organisations:University of Virginia

  Places:United States

  Subjects:Law
  Bank
  Constitution
  Vietnam

  Listed: Yes listed
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