Word: elms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home for the World. The delegates to the World Council's second Assembly had come from 48 countries to Chicago's suburb, Evanston (pop. 73,641), where comfortable houses sit well back from the elm-shaded streets and unfenced lawns flow comfortably together like the town's friendly citizens. Evanston has the Garrett Bible Institute, Northwestern University, the new headquarters of Rotary International and teetotal Prohibition. Last week homey Evanston was doing its best to make a home for Christianity...
Until three months ago, Kanab (pop. 1,287) was a peaceful, elm-shaded Mormon oasis amid the wind-worn rocks and wild hills of south-central Utah. Basically a cow town, it was a pleasant stop for tourists and a sometime location for Hollywood westerns. Three months ago, Kanab's quiet was disturbed by the discovery of commercial-grade uranium ten miles east of town...
...community that has reared the "Spreading Chestnut Tree," Election Oak, Whitefield Elm and Rebellion Tree would not let the Washington Elm go to the dogs. As it grew old, Cambridge doctored the tree with tar and splints. In 1874, one resident wrote, "its crippled branches swathed in bandages, its scars where, after holding aloft for a century their outstretched arms, limb after limb has fallen nerveless and decayed." The molting season was on, and lasted until 1923, when a workman, while removing a dead branch, pulled down the Elm with...
Souvenir hunters plagued the tree until the Cambridge government confiscated the remains. Hoping to make the Elm myth "an object lesson in patriotism for the whole country," officials sent fragments to each of the forty-eight governors, a polished cross-section to Mount Vernon, and thirty-two inscribed blocks abroad. They also presented two gavels of Washington Elm to each state legislature. All that remained to mark the tree site was a bronze disk, resembling a manhole cover, in the middle of Garden street...
...many Cambridge citizens, this market was not enough. In 1946 they formed the Washington Elm Memorial Committee and began to lobby for a fitting memento. After years of futile effort, they swing official Cambridge to their cause and, in 1950, the monument was built. On July third, after a two hour parade, the monument was dedicated, followed by the annual fireworks. since then, each year on Washington's Birthday, two American Legion posts and a Coast Guard color guard march through the Commons, leaving a wreath on the monument. This year the wreath was stolen a few hours after they...