Word: mcclellan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago--Roger Arnold Hines, Robert Alan James, Samuel Goodman McClellan, Robert Lee Walker...
Winner was almost as successful with his I Am Dreaming of the Loved Ones and The Detacher's Dog ("Oh where! Oh where! ish mine little dog gone?"). During the Civil War another song almost undid him. Lincoln removed General McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac for being over cautious. Popular sentiment favored McClellan's reinstatement, caused "Sep" Winner to write Give Us Back Our Old Commander: Little Mac, the People's Pride. Copies of the song were confiscated; Winner was almost jailed for treason, but the song swept through the whole Union Army...
...When McClellan invaded the Peninsula, fought his way almost to the outskirts of Richmond, social abysses began to close and the sacred soil of Virginia cracked open in other places. Before the terrible Seven Days' Battle was over, the abyss between Mildred and Brose was almost closed with corpses in grey. By the time McClellan drew off his battered army and Lee invaded Maryland, Mildred had painfully confessed to Brose that she loved...
...between budding willows to the sea; in the foreground a half-nude workman lies on a sunny rock; one woman kneels beside him while another is climbing up from the fields below (see cut). For models Artist Kroll used a onetime ditchdigger and sculptor's assistant named Jim McClellan, Mrs. Demetrios, wife of Sculptor George Demetrios, a farmer's daughter named Olga. He named the canvas The Road From the Cove, sent it to Pittsburgh, where it was judged preeminent by an exacting jury: precise Surrealist Pierre Roy of France; British Muralist Alfred Kingsley Lawrence; ailing Edward Bruce...
Sculptor Donato arrived at City Hall Plaza in time to save Civil War Generals McClellan and Reynolds, but the bronze statues of Locomotive Manufacturer Matthias William Baldwin and John Christian Bullitt, grandfather of Ambassador William Christian ("Bill") Bul litt, had been thoroughly scraped, oiled and polished. Sculptor Donato again sprinted for the Mayor's office, there met with fur ther bad news. A third WPA crew, he was told, had got at a bronze Washington in front of Independence Hall, holystoned away every trace of its treasured greenish mold. The WPA ducked further trouble with aroused Sculptor Donato...