Word: decatur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this session of Congress. But the Muscle Shoals fracas was not past. Only a few days later Senator Heflin, a sup porter of the Ford offer, summoned a witness. Senator Norris, an advocate of Government operation, sat listening in critical silence. The witness was Mrs. E. A. Edmundson of Decatur, Ala., one of the towns in the Muscle Shoals region. Ingenuously, she began her testimony. She smiled genially and recalled that in 1922 Senator Norris and Senator Heflin, with other Congressmen, had made a visit to the Shoals. She re called that the good people of Decatur had given them...
...have John T. McCutcheon draw a cartoon for the cover. Then we'll have an editorial page and put at the top that things of Decatur's: 'Our Country . . . may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!' That must be good stuff; we've used it for a long time. Then we'll get some stories-the kind we use in our Sunday editions-by George Barr McCutcheon, Albert Payson Terhune and Montague Glass. And we can have Mae Tince, who does our movies, contribute some of that...
That iconoclast of the present era of university education, Mr. Upton Sinclair, must have laughed a grimly sardonic laugh when he read of the strike of five hundred students of Millikin University, at Decatur, Illinois. The contention, which he defended in "The Goose Step", that most American colleges are run under the influence and according to the malignant desires of the capitalistic classes whose representatives sit on various boards of trustees and governors, seems at least in one instance to have contained a certain measure of truth. The Board of Managers of Millikin University, which derives its income from...