Word: meyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent house, closely affiliated with J. P. Morgan & Co., Guggenheim Bros. is in its second generation. No. i Guggenheim was Meyer, born in Switzerland in 1828, emigrating to the U. S. 19 years later. In Philadelphia, No. i Guggenheim vended various things, but first began making large profits through shoe-polish and glue. In 1872 he entered the embroidery business, taking into the firm his four eldest (of seven) sons: Daniel, Murry, Solomon, and Simon...
...preliminary step towards the annual spring production of the Dramatic Club; the newly elected board has appointed three men to serve as an advisory committee in selecting a play. H. G. Meyer '30, retiring secretary of the club; R. R. Wallstein '32, outstanding actor in several productions; and Frederick Thon '31 who had charge of makeup in "Success" last fall have been selected to serve in this capacity...
Pacifist Ernest Meyer was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin when war came to the U. S. in the spring of 1917. On his draft questionnaire he wrote: "I shall refuse . . . all combatant and noncombatant service." The University expelled him. At Camp Taylor he would not wear his uniform, was put under guard with the other conscientious objectors, tried three times, sent to Fort Leavenworth, finally dismissed after the Armistice. Now he works on the editorial staff of the Capital Times, liberal Madison, Wis., newspaper of the La Follette organization...
Says Author Meyer: at Camp Taylor the "yellowbacks" had to use the same latrine as the soldiers with venereal disease; though no physical violence was ever done to him, many of the religious objectors were beaten, tied to bars of cells, forced to stand in the sun till they collapsed. Religious objectors were of many creeds: Mennonites. Molokans, Christa-delphians, Plymouth Brethren, Adventists, Quakers, members of the Church of God, Church of Christ, Pentecostal, Apostolic Faith, International Bible Students, House of David. Says Author Meyer: though the U. S. Government dealt more humanely with pacifists than did any other nation...
...compare the Lincoln and Davis faces, one will only have to stand in the narrow connecting passage between Statuary Hall and the Rotunda where is placed the Lincoln head, rising as if half-finished out of solid stone, carved by Gutzon Borglum (donated by Eugene Meyer Jr., onetime Farm Loan Commissioner). To the sorrow of romantic historians the two antagonists of the Civil War will not gaze mournfully upon each other...