Word: chautauquas
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...know him, that he was going to introduce himself first by a discussion of general principles and not deal with specific campaign issues until later. His West Middlesex speech was, in fact, so fundamental that the Democratic high command did not bother to controvert its generalities. At Chautauqua Governor Landon discussed Education in a broad way, made news principally by breaking with William Randolph Hearst, his No. 1 press supporter on the worth of Teachers' Oaths...
Entraining next morning at New Castle, he headed north to Chautauqua. N. Y., where his parents used to take him every summer, where he met his first wife. After dinner with a dozen old friends, he motored to the familiar grounds and in the opensided amphitheatre delivered his second political speech, interjecting a new issue in the campaign. Excerpts: ''In view of the great contribution Chautauqua has made to American Life, I was glad to accept your invitation to speak...
...visit to Chautauqua, in pivotal New York. Speaking in place of his wife, whose address scheduled for this week was canceled, Non-Partisan Roosevelt declared in favor of Peace and Neutrality: "I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of the line -the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving...
...done. Before such contemporary and embarrassing evidence of the persistence of the religious moods that inspired Joseph Smith and John Humphrey Noyes, Author Carmer maintains an aloof compassion, avoiding sentimentality as well as the mockery which used to animate Critic Henry Mencken when he wrote about backwoods emotions. In Chautauqua, fountainhead of the adult education movement of 40 years ago, Author Carmer found much that was pleasant, picturesque, inane, a disproportion of old people, a general air of faded, genteel charm. In Lily Dale, centre for spiritualists, he spent the most fantastic day in his life going to seances, listening...
...Taylor looks back along 47 years on a poverty stricken youth, postgraduate work at Oregon Agricultural College and the University of Oregon, the accident which crushed his hands and ruined his hope of becoming a professional organist, a superintendency of schools in Oregon, and nation-wide wandering as a Chautauqua lecturer. Out of this he has the formula for successfully throwing oil on trouble human waters. Remembering his youth, he gives organized charity the sizeable contributions he receives from well-wishers...