Word: cullum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-one years ago a red-headed giant from the Tennessee mountains named Alvin Cullum York singlehanded killed 20 German soldiers, captured 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to rugged Fentress County as No. 1 U. S. war hero. Last week Sergeant York, fat, arthritic and peace-loving, visited San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair, confessed: "I don't know what the last war was about...
When Sergeant Alvin Cullum York, after killing 25 Germans singlehanded and capturing 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to Fentress County as the "greatest civilian soldier of the War," he promptly married his childhood sweetheart, Gracie Williams, with Tennessee's Governor performing the ceremony. His next wish was to build a good school for the neighbors' children. Hero York raised $10,000 by a lecture tour, Tennessee put up $50,000 and proud Fentress County pledged $50,000 more. In 1929 the Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute opened its doors, offered young mountaineers a respectable...
...plebe was just learning that in dancing, unlike marching, he must not put his heel down first, when Death came to Rudolph W. Vizay, longtime Dancing Master of the United States Military Academy (TIME, March 11). Last week "Madame"' Vizay's half-trained pupils lined up in Cullum Hall to take their lessons from Mr. & Mrs. George Roberts...
...service in the field of cancer and allied diseases have made the whole country its debtor." President Roosevelt's message summed up the attitude of the congregation in the Waldorf-Astoria that evening. There has never been any valid criticism against Memorial Hospital since Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton Halleck Cullum, granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton, founded the institution as a protest against those who considered cancer a vile, shameful disease. Mrs. Cullum laid the cornerstone of Memorial Hospital's first building at 106th Street and Central Park West, and died of cancer before the structure was finished...
...Traders, Inc. Peter Fletcher wanted to see a prompt 25% reduction on ad valorem rates, 50%, on specific rates. He thought and said: "We are now in the midst of the greatest worldwide tariff war in history." Heartily in accord were Charles T. Riotte, lace & embroidery man; Howard S. Cullum, Commissioner of the Port of New York Authority; Philip le Boutillier, president of Best & Co.; Wallace Thompson, editor of Ingenieria International...