Word: cincinnatus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer who might have complained most of frontier neglect complained not at all. That was yellow-haired Joaquin Miller (christened Cincinnatus Hiner Miller), a "delicate, effeminate, useless" romantic who had a daughter by an Indian woman, became a judge ("with one lawbook and two six-shooters," said oldtimers), married a romantic Oregon girl-poet named Minnie Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath...
...ensuing tussle Brother Bob, a conservative like his father, lined up with Cincinnati's Republican organization. As a reward for his party regularity, Ohio picked him as its Favorite Son for the Republican Convention of 1936. Brother Charlie, on the other hand, became a leader of the Cincinnatus Association, a group of energetic young men bent on ridding the city of its wasteful, machine-ridden government. They did, by putting over a new charter which created a city manager and proportional representation, making and keeping Cincinnati one of the best-governed cities in the land. Charlie Taft told...
Died. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, 82, famed Indian scout who helped General Nelson Miles rout Sitting Bull Crazy Horse, Lame Deer and others in the Indian campaigns of 1875-77; in Washington. He was the son & namesake of Mis .iss oni's late great statesman who went from the U. S Senate to the Cabinet to the Supreme Court...
...laboratory equipment smashed or looted. When Lee took charge at Washington, part of the campus was being used for farm land. Although not a first-rate "academic beggar," Lee administered what money he had to good effect. To the old-time classical curriculum, so beloved of the Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamars, Lee, who had spent four years defending the planters' leisure-class culture, soon added vulgar practical courses of agriculture, commerce and applied chemistry, thus anticipating Nicholas Murray Butler's Columbia by some decades...
...conviction that the leaders of U. S. democracy are almost invariably charlatans or rascals. He once voted for Jefferson Davis in a Presidential election, on the principle that a first-rate dead man is better than a second-rate live one. Of President Roosevelt he says: "[He] is no Cincinnatus; his manifest scheming for the job gives his measure." NRAdministrator Johnson he calls "that vulgar ruffian Johnson, Roosevelt's strong-arm man." He finds it "hard to imagine a more despicable institution than our press. ... All that makes me suspect there may be something in Technocracy is that...