Word: carvers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antonio, Tex. last week rumbled one of the last vans full of plaster and clay models of sculpture by Mountain-Carver Gutzon Borglum, who closed up his studio and left Texas for good last month after the contract for San Antonio's greatest memorial, the Alamo Cenotaph, was awarded not to him but to pudgy Sculptor Pompeo Coppini. During the twelve years he called San Antonio his home, big-eared, irascible Sculptor Borglum never finished a Texas job. A hater of cheap politics since the fiasco of his Stone Mountain project in Georgia, Borglum's wrath at Texas...
Professor Taussig's book--"Principles of Economics" reviewed by Professor T. N. Carver...
...When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes...
...list of peanut products includes milk, butter, cheese, coffee, pickles, shaving lotion, breakfast food, flour, soap, ink, cosmetics, a dandruff remedy. When the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill was in the making, its framers were skeptical as to the need of U. S. farmers for peanut protection. George Washington Carver appeared in Washington, talked for an hour and 45 minutes to the Congressmen. When the bill passed a peanut tariff was in it. In recent years he has tried out peanut oil as a remedy for infantile paralysis, rubbing it into withered muscles...
This year George Washington Carver has made two speeches before regional conferences on the Farm Chemurgic Council. Before the microphone he manifested a whimsical simplicity reminiscent of Green Pastures, apostrophizing God as "Mr. Creator." He corresponds with Mahatma Gandhi, whom he emulates in humility and lack of interest in money. When he was younger he got up at 4 a.m., went to the woods to pick flowers, gather specimens, observe animals not visible later in the day, commune with...