Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less quickly than this winter's snows have the charges of "Fascism" at Columbia's Teachers' College melted with yesterday's announcement that Professor Kilpatrick will give the Macy Lectures in 1938 and 1939. For a while the enforcing of the retirment law looked like a gag upon the liberal and controversial teacher. He does not think that his throat is being cut, nonetheless, and the report of his new position verifies the friendly words of Dean Russell before the New Orleans Convention...
Professor Kilpatrick is valuable because he is so irritating a part of the school-system; as it writhes under his pricks it may yet fashion a pearl. Thrice blest is Columbia's selection of him to give the series of lectures. It gives him a pulpit for his doctrines and affords his many supporters a chance to hear him teach once more. To an equal extent the University increases its honor and reputation...
...employers with labor troubles. In 1892 hard-boiled Henry Clay Frick imported 300 "Pinks" to fight a bloody, all-day battle with his steelworkers at Homestead, Pa. Ten were killed, 30 wounded and the public loudly protested. Congress passed a curious law forbidding the Government or any District of Columbia official ever again to employ a Pinkerton operative...
...howl they did. By the tough general's own conservative estimate, the damage done amounted to $100,000,000. It was South Carolina's turn to howl next. General Sherman headed his troop: north and began destroying things right & left. By the time the capital city of Columbia was sacked and burned, South Carolinians were howling as loud as their Georgia neighbors...
...warrior was going forth as an engraved image on a harmless new 3? stamp with likenesses of his old accomplices, General Ulysses Simpson Grant and General Philip Henry Sheridan at his side. But to many Georgians and South Carolinians, General Sherman is still repugnant in any form. At Columbia, where an indignant legislator heatedly recalled that the west wall of the State Capitol still bears scars made by Sherman's cannon balls, the South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon South Carolina's national Senators and Representatives to demand that the Post Office Department stop...