Word: aldermanic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rent and sore from its April primary, the G. 0. P. of Ohio last week reached the first stage of real convalescence. Carmi Alderman Thompson, voluble Clevelander who led the late Senator Willis' presidential campaign and inveighed bitterly against the invading forces of Hooverism, withdrew his candidacy for the U. S. Senate in favor of Representative Theodore Elijah Burton, venerable Hoover leader. The Thompson withdrawal meant little in itself since the Thompson candidacy looked hopeless against Mr. Burton, who has been a distinguished Senator before now (1905-15). But the Thompson cry for party harmony ("which I prize more...
Edwin Anderson Alderman of the University of North Carolina...
...course, Edwin Anderson Alderman did not do all these things. But he took the stump, and his voice was sonorous. He asked for higher taxes and hence better schools. He got them, hissed though he was at first. Rockefeller and Rosenwald money began to go to work in the South. . . . And now magazine articlists call Dr. Alderman "the savior of the South...
There is little originality in the writings and speeches of Dr. Alderman. It is in fervor and organizing ability that he excels. As president of the University of North Carolina (1896-1900), he not only whipped it up to New England standards but also reorganized around it the public schools of the state. Then he became president of Tulane University (New Orleans) and in 1904 went to the University of Virginia to be president, an office he still holds...
President Alderman has gained the confidence of the alumni, some of whom regarded him as a suspicious crusader in the early years. One graduate, a potent Manhattan banker, has been in the habit of returning to the Virginia campus several times a year, just to talk with and listen to the sonorous and friendly President Alderman. Perhaps it was this banker who last week gave, anonymously, $5,000,000 to the University of Virginia. Half of the income from this fund will be used for scholarships and fellowships...