Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until 1821 were the copious notes taken by Delegate Robert Yates of New York on the Convention's debates published. In 1841 a detailed Convention journal kept by scholarly James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," was published. Only from these notes, the meagre official journal and a smattering set down by other delegates, have judges and scholars learned what the Fathers thought & said while they were piecing together their great patchwork of compromises...
...Sheaffer Pen Co. boasts the largest dollar sales of any pen manufacturer in the U. S. When it was founded in a Fort Madison, Iowa jeweler's shop in 1913, most fountain pens clogged, scratched, leaked or had to be filled with a medicine dropper. Jeweler Walter A. Sheaffer patented one of the first important improvements-a lever bar filling device. With a capital of $35,000 he started manufacturing Sheaffer pens in the back room of his jewelry shop...
Died. Annie Smith Peck, 84, teacher, author, lecturer, alpinist; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Onetime professor of Latin at Smith College, Miss Peck gave up teaching for mountain-climbing at 45, was known at 60 as the world's No. 1 woman alpinist, climbed Mt. Madison...
...vindictive ex-wife but of no less than 270, during the three years that indignant Executive Secretary Jack Anthony of the Alimony Reform League of New York State has been prying into the psychology of women who have their onetime mates jailed for nonpayment of alimony. Lately Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, distinguished Stanford University psychologist, after tabulating the results of a questionnaire, described the typical divorced woman as lacking "sweet femininity" but possessing "rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance" (TIME, June 24). But Dr. Terman had no evidence that any of his rugged women were keeping their husbands...
Alabama: rebuilding storm sewers in Montgomery; malaria control in Mobile; cleaning the Cahaba River in Bibb County; steel bridge over Copeland Creek in Madison; double treatment asphalt street paving in Greenville; improving cemetery drives in Gadsden; a reform school in Mt. Meigs; a swimming pool in Columbiana...