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...TIME, April 28) ; Professor Andrew Cowper Lawson, international geologist, onetime (1914-18) dean of the College of Mining. For his good humor as well as his capabilities, dear to the heart of many a Californian is Professor Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley, pedagog and poetaster ? with whom Governor Clement Calhoun Young once collaborated on a text on English poetry...
Englishmen first settled along the Ashley River in 1670, ten years later moved their government to the rich peninsula between the Ashley and the Cooper. Rice and cotton gave prosperity. Cavalier second sons, high-born French Huguenots, gave aristocracy. Great names- Pinckney, Rutledge, Lewis, Calhoun, Gadsden, Ravenel, Laurens, Petigru-rose and fell. The St. Cecilia society balls dazzled Northern visitors. To see the magnolia gardens, men crossed the sea. In St. Andrew's hall on Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina voted itself out of the Union. Last big Charleston event: the $5,000,000 earthquake...
...Daniel Calhoun Roper, South Carolina Democrat, under whom, as President Wilson's Commissioner of Internal Revenue, national Prohibition enforcement began. Loud have been Wet pleas for a U. S. liquor dispensary system. Only in South Carolina from 1893 to 1907 was such a system ever attempted on a large scale. It was Mr. Roper who, as a State legislator, sponsored the bill creating it. To the Judiciary Committee Mr. Roper recited the history of that liquor experiment in his State, described the "whiskey rebellion" at Darlington, the bootlegging, graft and corruption which finally...
...Angeles, in itself an exhibition, showed off at its best. More important, Citizen Calvin Coolidge showed off in return. From the moment California's Governor Clement Calhoun Young and Los Angeles' Mayor John Clinton Porter met him at the bedraped station until his departure for Santa Barbara to visit Mark Requa, he received enough acclaim, applause, and attention to flatter a President, to say nothing of a king...
Furthermore, Calhoun's doctrine was able to cause civil war only because the controversy involved was of such a nature thatit divided the nation along clearly-defined regional lines, presenting in this way two violently opposed geographical entities. The present controversy, while sentiment may prevail one way or the other in different regions, is not fundamentally sectional in origin, and scarcely can operate to cause any well defined rift in the union. Civil war under these conditions then must necessarily be nothing more, than anarchy and chaos, rather than any conflict between two well organized factions. It is absurd...