Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sticks. Three canes were cut from an elm tree which grew on the spot [battlefield of Lexington, Mass.] where the movement for the establishment of American liberty had its inception. These canes are given to the.- three foremost defenders and upholders of liberty and the Constitution in America: William Randolph Hearst, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Osee Lee Bodenhamer, national commander of the American Legion." Said Foremost Defender Hearst: "I do not know whether I fully deserve it. . . ." A few days later Chicago's City Council ordered Anglophobe Mayor William Hale Thompson to invite...
...third. Eliot House, now being built on the site of the demolished power plaut at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston St., fronting the river (and to be finished by next autumn), will be a fourth unit, and three older dormitories of the Mt. Auburn St. region. Randolph and Russell Halls, with Westmorly Court, will be a fifth, making in all seven Houses. One more new dormitory will be built in the Yard for the Freshmen. It will stand in the space bounded by Massachusetts Ave, on the south, Wardsworth House on the west. Grays Hall and the Widener...
...Senators and five Representatives in one boat and a swarm of War Veterans in another steamed down New York Bay to give a hero's welcome to William Randolph Hearst, 67, ejected from France last fortnight for commiserating with Germany against France and for having one of his reporters steal a secret Anglo-French treaty in 1928 (TIME, Sept...
...issue special Stone Mountain half dollars. Of these 1,400,000 were sold at $1 each; 700,000 are stored in the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta. In 1925, largely as a result of a political feud between Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution and Political Boss Hollins Randolph, Sculptor Borglum was dismissed for incompetence, lack of progress. Sculptor Borglum destroyed his clay models in a fit of pique, was promptly indicted as a felon by an Atlanta grand jury. He removed to South Dakota, where he undertook to chisel the face of Mount Rushmore into 400-ft. statues...
Came last week the triumph of Gutzon. In recent months the political fortunes of Boss Randolph have shrivelled. Mayor-elect of Atlanta, new president of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, is James L. King, fervent Gutzonian. At the earnest request of the chastened members of the S. M. M. A. Borglum returned to Atlanta. Limping, leaning on two canes (result of a sprained ankle caused when a scaffolding on Mount Rushmore collapsed), he bubbled with new plans for Stone Mountain. The Lukeman Lee, Traveller the horse and his brick-water stains, all were to be blasted off. On the residue...