Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, at the 42d encampment of the Tennessee division of the G. A. R., the National Grand Commander, L. F. Arensberg of Pittsburgh condemned the coinage of "Stone Mountain half dollars," which are to be sold at a premium to finance the great Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Ga...
...Distinguished Service," read the golden, three-inch medals awarded by the Roosevelt Memorial Association last week, presented by President Coolidge, to Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, George Bird Grinnell of Manhattan and Miss Martha Berry, of Possum Trot, Ga...
Count Niezyzhowski was assigned to the Kronprins Wilhelm, a destroyer of Allied shipping. On Apr. 11, 1915, his ship was forced into Newport News, Va., for fuel and repairs, was interned. The Count was sent to Fort McPherson, Ga...
Next day, the press of the Nation affirmed, quite correctly, that the reward could not have been better bestowed. Tenor Hayes is an artist of the first rank. Born in Curryville, Ga., his mother a freed slave, he worked as a stove-molder, sang in a church choir, was encouraged to train his voice. At first, because of the incredible prejudice against his race, he received scant attention in the U. S. He went to Europe, toured England triumphantly, sang before King George in Buckingham Palace (TIME, Oct. 8, 1923), conquered hostile audiences in Germany, returned...
...destroying fact ... no funds . . association has shrunk. . . ." Such phrases came, last week, from the lips of Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor. He, glum, was deploring the withdrawal of public support from the great memorial to the Confederacy which, under his direction, has been rising on the face of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923; May 26, 1924). Those two proud gentlemen, Generals Lee and Jackson, stand raised among their armies on the mountain's craggy front, half- formed. In the U. S. mint, 5,000,000 half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across one side...