Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week on the feast of the Assumption of Our Lady, a little group of devout U. S. Anglo-Catholics gathered on Memorial Drive by the River Charles in Cambridge, Mass. There for a decade a Romanesque monastery has been intermittently under construction, the U. S. mother house of the...
Shipped in sections on a special freight train, Vulcan broke every tackle in St. Louis before he was finally bolted together in the centre of the mines and manufacturing exhibition buildings. An inscription for the base was supplied by one of Birmingham's leading citizens, John Henry Adams:
Two men who never forgot Birmingham's cast-iron pride were John Henry Adams, author of the grandiloquent inscription, and Thomas Joy. As a child Thomas Joy sold the first newspaper ever to appear on the streets of Birmingham, later became a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club...
Later Thomas Joy made a proposal : he would join the Kiwanis Club again if the Kiwanis Club would get up a committee and start subscriptions to move Vulcan from his ignominious post at. the Fair Grounds. John Henry Adams was the first to join. Last May WPA went to the...
Though her unceasing outflow of tunes has made her the friend of all U.S. choir-leaders, Mrs. Adams does not drive herself. Tall, bespectacled and dignified, she seats herself at her grand piano from 8 a. m. to 2 p. m. every day, says: "I just write what I know...