Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall of Fame is heavily weighted in favor of men of letters. Of the 13 statesmen already installed, eight are U. S. Presidents : Washington, the two Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln. The other five are equally familiar: Franklin, Hamilton, Henry, Webster, Clay. It was not until 1930, after running five times, that James Monroe slipped in. But there are 16 authors, five preachers and theologians, five educators. There are seven women, of whom Harriet Beecher Stowe is the only household name. Only businessman is George Peabody, who entered under the colors of a philanthropist. The Electors include few businessmen...
...first Automobile Show in the U. S. was held in Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden in 1900. Most models were foreign-built and all were equipped with tillers instead of steering wheels. Steamers and electrics were as popular as gasoline cars. Every afternoon contests were held for the easiest car to start, easiest to stop, easiest to steer. Winner of the steering contest had to navigate safely through a maze of boxes and barrels strewn on a plank track at 8 m.p.h. On the roof of the Garden was a ramp for hill-climbing demonstrations...
Hotel Roosevelt (46th and Madison) Bernie Cummin's orchestra together with songs by Dorothy Crane...
...pocket. Young Sol Hurok peddled needles & pins, worked in a mattress factory, a bottle factory, a crockery store, heard music whenever he could. When a Brooklyn charity wanted to give a series of concerts Sol Hurok undertook to engage the artists. At 21 he rented huge Madison Square Garden, offered concerts there...
...space problem more acutely than any other of our Colonial colleges. When the old print was made it had already moved 9in 1756) from near Trinity Church to the outskirts what is now Park Place. The outskirts to which the college moved in 1857 was the region around Madison Avenue and 40th Street...