Word: americanes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taft. Lorado Taft, prolific Chicago sculptor, spoke in general on "Beauty in American Life," in particular on "My Dream Museum...
...With President Hoover I believe that Prohibition is an experiment noble in purpose, and that it was enacted for the protection of the American home, and with him I wish it to succeed...
Hyde. U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde addressed the teachers, expounded the Hoover interpretation of such shopworn terms as Equalization Fee, Debenture Plan, Federal Farm Board, Cooperatives. He begged his hearers "to aid in . . . answering the . . . compelling cry: 'I am an American farmer...
Pyrtle. Uel Walter Lamkin's term as president of the N. E. A. expired. Elected to succeed him was Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle of Lincoln, Neb., who sailed immediately following the conference to attend conventions of the World's Federation of Education Associations and the American Association of University Women in Switzerland...
...good, Conductor van Hoogstraten with the aid of Music Critic Lawrence Gilman, has arranged a longer-than-ever list of special features. Old favorites: The Hall Johnson Negro Choir, Anna Duncan, the Denishawns, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in B-flat. Innovations: George Gershwin's "An American in Paris,'' Deems Taylor's "Jurgen," Edward Burlingame Hill's Symphony in B Flat, Ernest Bloch's rhapsody "America" (with 500-voice chorus). Albert Coates of London, as guest conductor during August, has promised his own Scherzo from The Pickwick Papers, subtitled "The Elopement of the Spinster...