Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theologians. Yet whereas the change-of-name excited the Deputies and drove Dr. Beale to tears, the national and international problems elicited only weasel words from the committee, whose conservative majority included onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, Major General Charles Pelot Summerall and Washington's Bishop James Edward Freeman...
...army engineers to study the technical problems involved. Optimistically San Francisco voted a $45,000,000 bond issue. The last legal barrier fell in 1913 when Congress gave its full consent. By then Hetch Hetchy was a year past its real turning point. In July 1912 Engineer John R. Freeman drew up what have remained the basic plans for the system. Few months later San Francisco got for its City Engineer a vigorous Irishman named Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy, already well known for his work in California and Hawaii. The War and work on Hetch Hetchy began together...
...Vols. I & II)-Douglas Southall Freeman-Scribner ($7.50). Strange, even shocking as it may seem, no definitive life of the late great Robert Edward Lee has yet been written. When, 19 years ago, Publisher Scribner asked Author Freeman to write a biography of Lee, he expected it to be a one-volume affair, soon discovered to his surprise that "much the larger part of the source material had never been consulted." The job grew under his hand, when finished will fill four fat volumes. But Biographer Freeman turned up no startling new facts. "There were no 'secrets...
...beaten army had made a safe get away after Chancellorsville, Lee exploded in a mild steam: "Why, General Pender! That is the way you young men always do. You allow these people to get away. I tell you what to do, but you don't do it!" Author Freeman's half-length portrait shows a kindly but aloof gentleman, a believe-it-or-not Christian Soldier. But some of the soldiers he commanded were more human if less humane. One Confederate private, rummaging the battleground during a truce after Fredericksburg, was reprimanded by a Federal officer for salvaging...
Score--Harvard 3, Amherst 3. Goals --Clos, Grover, Manheimer, Klaus, Allis, Pfell. Referee--T. Freeman. Time--four 32-minute periods, two five-minute periods...