Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deep concern to preachers, coaches, and heads of college athletic associations in 1928 and 1931, have aroused no indignation this year. By last week 19 football deaths had been announced. One Robert Mansfield, playing on an Oakland, Calif, sandlot, died when he ran head first into a telegraph pole. Andrew Crespino of New Orleans died of a heart attack during practice when he leaned over to tie his shoe...
Last week's show was not only the Institute's 33rd, but marked the looth Anniversary of the birth of Founder Andrew Carnegie. For this anniversary exhibition 21 nations, more than ever before, were represented. It is an old Carnegie custom to ask gallery-goers to vote on their favorite canvases, and give a prize to the most popular picture at the exhibition's close. From past experience critics dared not hazard which this might be. but found the following pictures worthy of special merit...
When Chicago's William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was loudly gunning for "stool pigeons of King George" eight years ago, the best he could bring down was William Andrew Me Andrew, the city's white-bearded school superintendent whom Mayor William Dever had imported from New York. "Big Bill" flung abuse at Superintendent McAndrew, made a great hullabaloo about "pro-British" history textbooks, finally got himself elected Mayor. Superintendent McAndrew watched the Thompson antics with fine disdain, stood a farcical trial for insubordination, finally retired to East Setauket, N. Y. There he edits the "Educational Review" in School...
Wrote William Andrew Me Andrew: "Norman Rockwell, erstwhile giver of delight by his depiction of lovable and quaint rugged individualists, took the Evening Post's money to do this ulcerous thing. . . . No decent allegiance to the American ideals of education, as formulated by Washington, Franklin and other founders of the nation . . . can be maintained if public prints throw disrespect on education and on women. The cartoonists drawing teachers depict pretty women, now. The Saturday Evening Post's bad break is probably a relapse, a case of atavism, a recollection by some unhappy old man who told Rockwell what...
...Some "big" presbyterians: Steelmaster Eugene Gifford Grace; Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson: Senator James Couzens; Lumberman Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser; Will H. Hays; Andrew William Mellon...