Word: fairmounters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairmount, W. Va., a certain John Albericon visited his doctor. He then went to see the district president of the United Mine Workers of America, who referred him to pickets at one of the little "wagon mines" which supply the odd-lot coal trade in northern West Virginia. The pickets let the mine supply Mr. Albericon after reading this entry on a medical prescription blank (as noted last week by Scripps-Howard Reporter Fred W. Perkins...
...years these words from the testament of Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel have been so many thorns in the flesh of the Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadelphia. Plump, exacting Mrs. Samuel died in 1913, leaving the association $765,000 to execute her row of dreamed-of statues along the Schuylkill's east bank. Mrs. Samuel's dream, however, gave the association the willies. They thought it smacked of waxworks...
...their effort to sit quietly on Mrs. Samuel's bequest, the Fairmount Park Art Association reckoned without frizzle-bearded Joseph Bunford Samuel, Mrs. Samuel's husband. For Statue No. 1 in the series, Mr. Samuel himself commissioned Icelandic Sculptor Einar Jönsson to do a heroic bronze Viking, presented it to the Park. It was left to languish in a toolshed. Mr. Samuel thereupon began to fight. After several years he got the Viking put up at the end of Boathouse...
...your information, the Municipal University of Wichita, a coeducational institution, was created by a referendum vote of the citizens of Wichita in April, 1926, and established around the nucleus of old Fairmount College, a Congregational school, founded...
...creation of a municipally owned university was accomplished under the leadership of Dr. John D. Finlayson, then president of Fairmount College and later chancellor of the University of Tulsa. From an enrollment of about 400 in 1927, the University of Wichita has grown rapidly, having an enrollment of over 1,500 in 1936. The equipment and plant have kept pace with this growth...