Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Virginia formally welcomed President Hoover as its guest and neighbor. In a field near Madison gathered 5,000 people white and black. Governor Harry Flood Byrd arrived from Richmond in U. S. Army airship C-41. The President descended from his Shenandoah National Park Camp, made a non-political speech, ate barbecue with his fingers. Declared President Hoover: "Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man. . . . Everybody concedes that fish will not bite in the presence of the public and the press...
Walter Reed Hospital occupies a large scrubbily-wooded tract at the far end of 16th Street, Washington, near the District of Columbia-Maryland line. It is composed of central stone buildings surrounded by numerous one-story frame houses. Commanding is Brig.-General James Madison Kennedy...
Design: All the new bills are black & green (no more "yellow-backs"). All $1 bills portray Washington, all $2s Jefferson, $5s Lincoln, $10s Hamilton, $20s Jackson, $50s Grant, $100s Franklin, $500s McKinley, $1,000s Cleveland, $5,000s Madison, $10,000s Chase...
...chill that fell over the boxing world when Promoter Rickard lay, with cheeks rouged and his best suit on, in a glass-covered box at Madison Square Garden, did begin to pass last week when showgirls from Florenz Ziegfeld's Whoopee turned out to sell tickets for a fight on June 27 in the Yankee Stadium. Although ostensibly to benefit New York poor children by swelling the Milk Fund, and although the world's championship will not be at issue, this fight loomed far more significantly than the inconclusive Dempsey-promoted by-play at Miami last winter between...
Uzcudun. Paulino Uzcudun, "Champion of Europe," is training in Hoosick Falls, N. Y., birthplace of William F. Carey, who succeeded Promoter Rickard at Madison Square Garden. Last week Promoter Carey visited him there. Unlike Schmeling, Uzcudun, a Basque woodchopper who wore shoes for the first time at the age of 24, is almost always noisy. He likes to sing and dance, both of which he did last week in honor of the Carey visit. He claims to be the champion woodchopper of the world. When Max Schmeling heard this, he tried to chop wood, too, but desisted after he struck...