Word: homestead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them are due to his elder brother's business acumen unfortunately not equalled by his judgment. The name of Norquay is, in danger throughout the book, but Roderick, last of the line, manages to save it after a hard fight. But he has to sell the old Norquay homestead to do it, which it took five generations of doughty Norquays to put together. Andy Hall, one of those old philosophers without whom no logging camp is complete, has a theory which explains the title, if nothing else. It isn't important. The important things are Roderick's splendid moral character...
...dramatic scene in the sitting-room of an old-fashioned Yankee homestead at Plymouth, Vt., where in the early morning hours of Aug. 3, 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in by his father as 30th President of the U. S., will be commemorated in a painting by Walter Gilman Page of Boston, Chairman of the Massachusetts State Art Commission. Page has recorded all the details of the room-glass lamp, family Bible, old combination desk and bookcase, bowl of flowers, bay window and Col. John Coolidge himself-an interior full of pictorial, as well as historical, value...
Dante Pierce is the publisher of the Iowa Homestead, one of the great farm journals of that state. He will be the next Secretary of Agriculture, if the custom of appointing editors of Iowa farm journals* does not stale. Dante Pierce had much to do with putting Smith Wildman Brookhart into the Senate...
...tells how it happened in a paper on Art and the Industrial Problem in Scribner's Magazine for September. Many will remember his virile War and Liberty Loan posters: Sure, We'll Finish the Job and Work As You Would Fight. In his youth Beneker visited Homestead and other towns where steel has left its stamp, and vowed: " Some day I'll have a studio in a steel mill." On February 1, 1919, he entered the employ of the Hydraulic Steel Co. of Cleveland, at the invitation of Whiting Williams and other far-seeing executives. The best...
...years old, the son of a farmer living at Alliston, Ont. He worked on his father's homestead until he was 19, when he entered the University of Toronto. Graduating from medical school, he entered the Canadian Army, became a battalion surgeon with the rank of captain. Wounded at Cambrai, invalided to England, he returned to Canada in 1920 and became a laboratory assistant at the Western University, London, Ont., where by chance he soon became interested in the internal secretions of the pancreas from the so-called " islands of Langerhans " (TiME, April 21), and began experimenting with methods...