Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neatly lettered in gold. Next day, the newspapers explained what the impromptu incantations were all about. Some 4,000 members of the Associated Glee Clubs of America, in 70 units, had paid their own expenses, traveled from all parts of the continent for a giant sing-song in vasty Madison Square Garden. By letter the various units had decided what they were going to sing, together and competitively. Prior to and between events at the Garden, the visitors went sightseeing, with pauses here and there for practice and publicity...
President Hoover, in a telegram which he sent last week regretting that he could not be present to unveil a bust of President James Madison, called the Hall of Fame and its periodic unveiling ceremonies, "a noble inspiration to the young." Eight-year-old Betty Glenn Walker, a descendant of Madison's brother, substituted for President Hoover...
Other appointments are as follows: R. H. Bond '19 will take charge of all class basketball, as well as coaching the backfield of the Freshman football team; Madison Sayles '27 will again coach the lacrosse team next year; and Henry Chauncey '27, recently appointed assistant dean will be coach of dormitory football...
Died. James Pilkington, 78, of Manhattan, oldtime policeman, Civil War veteran, contractor, boxer, wrestler, trapshooter, sculler, oarsman, bowler, trackman; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1879, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Athlete Pilkington won the national amateur championship in both boxing and wrestling on the same night...
...wish. The already granted (effective May 1) five-day week for Manhattan bricklayers adds no speed to the erection of Mr. Ley's Chrysler Building, 42nd and Lexington, world's tallest (870 ft.) tower. Other famed Ley Manhattan skyscrapers are Fisk Building, 57th & Broadway; Liggett Building, 42nd & Madison; Westinghouse Building, 150 Broadway. Mr. Ley has constructed office buildings, apartment buildings, factories, sewers, trolley lines, bridges, waterworks, dams, highways and war camps (Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., built in ten weeks), but neither in his early days in Springfield, Mass., nor in his more recent Manhattan period did the five-day week...