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...five times as long as General Lee commanded his armies, the battle of Stone Mountain has been waged between Sculptor Borglum, committees, women's clubs, politicians. At the last attempt to obtain a financial accounting from the backers of the memorial, at least $800,000 had been collected from schoolchildren, sentimentalists, and spent. The Federal Government was persuaded to 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...
...years I lived in the United States," said Mr. Takahashi. amiably waving his interviewer to a seat at the organ. "I returned to this country in 1922. My strongest impression of my native land was that the children did not use handkerchiefs. In one morning I saw 65 schoolchildren giving ample evidence of this. On the following day I visited a primary school and found that 200 of the thousand pupils had colds but no handkerchiefs. So I started my campaign. . . . But I've got to be going, it's time for my morning round. Haven't missed...
...terrifying prospect, but the day at Coblenz passed as smoothly as the first part of the trip. The von Hindenburgs landed at Deutsches Eck, "German Corner," the little promontory of land where the Moselle flows into the Rhine, sacred to sentimentalists as the "Heart of Germany," listened to singing schoolchildren, attended a municipal banquet...
...Schoolchildren. Dr. William O'Shea, Superintendent of New York's schools, was one of the first witnesses called. He said he was "quite certain this thing is dangerous." Three of the city's 810 schools, he said, had been circularized with pamphlets telling children to become "class soldiers for a class war." Some of his principals exhibited pamphlets found on their pupils which read: "Down with the schools, the flag, the principals!" They told how scholars played hookey on May Day, played "escape from prison" in place of hide-&-seek. Viewed with alarm was a 15-year-old caught...
...Wiesbaden in the early evening the 82-year-old Field-Marshal showed his only sign of strain. He excused himself from watching hundreds of schoolchildren enact the jubilation of the Elbe, the Voder, the Danube and several other German rivers at the liberation of "Their Sister, the Rhine...