Word: galesburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year Sandburg made no engagements; he sat at his cracker box and wrestled with a bigger job than any army commander ever faced. Fifty years old when he started it, he could summon to his aid a lifetime of singularly useful experience: as a shock-headed Swedish kid in Galesburg, Ill. in the '80s (his father was an immigrant blacksmith) listening to talk of Lincoln and the Civil War; as a harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years of schooling in the hard...
...GILCHRIST Galesburg...
...Sandburg came back to hometown Galesburg wearing the blue of a private who had seen service with the 6th Illinois Volunteers in Porto Rico. Hero Sandburg resumed his poverty-ridden studies at Lombard College. Edgar Lee Masters came to Knox College from Kansas, stayed several years, and prepared for life in a law office...
...directors of the bureau are Reece A. Gardner '33, president, of Kansas City, Mo.; Marshall K. Skadden, Vice-president, New York City; Joseph H. Moran, secretary, New York City; Joe J. Straburger Jr., Galesburg, Ill.; Alexander L. Keyes, New York City; George A. Teitz, Newport, R. I.; and Carl Tangeman, Columbus...
...football season of 1934. Knox College of Galesburg, Ill., lost eight games without scoring a point, ran its string of consecutive defeats up to 27.* When he resigned last week. Coach Lloyd Burdick, who lost 27 lb. during the season, gave his explanation: ''They did the best they could but the material wasn't there. . . . I will always remember every fellow who played on the 1934 Knox team as hard workers. . . . Nine of the regulars didn't even have any high-school football experience. . . . I'll never forget the day one of our little fellows...