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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sadly disillusioned. But if they took the trouble to walk down Tremont Street past Park Street Church and look in to the left, they could see the place for themselves--the Old Granary Burial Ground, where the tombs of Paul Revere and Mrs. Mary Goose, who wrote the famous verses for her grandchildren, lie only 50 feet apart...
...Copyright 1948 by Famous Music Corp...
Haines came to this country in 1911 after establishing a famous record as an oarsman in England. He started as a coach at the Union Boat Club in Boston, but transferred to Harvard in 1915, where he remained until accepting the position of head coach at MIT in 1923. His 1916 Crimson crow once set a four-mile record of 20 minutes and two seconds...
...make clear this stand and to refute Lindley, William Polk had to find a sounding board. He chose the Progressive Party and Henry Wallace, a choice which today he admits was his "worst mistake." As a result, Wallace got up at his now famous press conference during the Progressive Party's Philadelphia convention and implied to the assembled newsmen that they should be ashamed of themselves for not risking their necks to get news as George Polk had done. Hence instead of getting across the point William Polk had wanted emphasized, that Lindley's action was, he believed, motivated...
...head of the medical staff of Washington's army, he insisted on hospital reforms, quit the service when he failed to get them and became openly critical of the commander-in-chief. When Lewis & Clark started on their famous expedition, President Jefferson asked Rush to tell Lewis what information he ought to bring back. Sample queries: "What are the acute diseases of the Indians? Is suicide common among them? Ever from love...