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Line 73: An interesting footnote in the saga of the sinking of the [[RMS Titanic]] is that Meyer was awakened, against strict orders, by his personal [[valet]], James Eli Kendall. For his actions, Kendall was fired, apologized to, and then rehired by Meyer. After 1911, Meyer was an overseer of Harvard University.<ref name="amer"/> He retired from national politics and returned to Massachusetts in 1913, after Taft left office ~~and returned to Massachusetts~~. He joined the effort to reelect Theodore Roosevelt in 1916.<ref name="anb"/> The foremost critic of [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s naval policies,<ref name=anb/> on the outbreak of [[World War I]] he urged preparedness and criticised America's naval administration. He was actively associated with the [[National Security League]] and the [[Navy League of the United States\|Navy League]]. Among the organizations for which he was a director were the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., Old Colony Trust Co., Puget Sound Light & Power Co., Walter Baker Co., and Ames Plow Co.<ref name="eb"/> In December 1916 Meyer, Roosevelt and other philanthropists including Scottish-born industrialist John C. Moffat, [[William A. Chanler]], [[Joseph Choate]], [[Clarence Mackay]], [[John Grier Hibben]], and [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] purchased the [[Château de Chavaniac]], birthplace of the [[Marquis de Lafayette]] in [[Auvergne (province)\|Auvergne]] to serve as a headquarters for the [http://www.chateau-lafayette.com/Lafayette-Memorial.html French Heroes Lafayette Memorial Fund],<ref>[http://newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bostonsh?a=d&d=BOSTONSH19170106-01.2.14# "Americans buy Layette's Home," ''The Sacred Heart Review,'' Volume 57, Number 4, 6 January 1917, p. 3.]</ref> which was managed by Chanler's ex-wife Beatrice Ashley Chanler.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=oZEVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=bibliogroup:%22Harper%27s+Pictorial+Library+of+the+World+War%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NGIuUpWnH7Wy4AOekYGYCA&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Albert Bushnell Hart, ''Harper's Pictorial Library of the World War, Volume 7,'' Harper, 1920; p. 110.]</ref><ref>"Americans Aid War Refugees in Paris Mrs. William Astor Chanler Tells of Work Done Through Lafayette Fund;" ''The Philadelphia Inquirer;'' 8-04-1918; Vol. 179, Issue: 35; p. 11, Philadelphia, PA.</ref>

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