Word: missourians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most Reverend the Archbishop of St! Louis, Dr. John Joseph Glennon, was received by His Holiness in a 35-minute audience, during which Archbishop Glennon presented the quinquennial report of his diocese. After this, Pope and Archbishop marched to the Consistorial Hall where some 100 Missourian pilgrims were assembled. To them the Pope gave medals and an apostolic benediction. Each Missourian kissed His Holiness' hand...
...nominated Greeley. For a time Greeley scared the Grant men. He drew huge audiences when he spoke. The campaign became viciously personal. Thomas Nast, having just helped to upset the Tweed Ring in New York City by his cartoons, turned his devastating pen upon Greeley. Gratz Brown, a Missourian, who was Greeley's running-mate, was not known (by sight) in Manhattan, so Cartoonist Nast pictured him as a tag on Greeley's white coat. But Greeley fared even worse. A few days before the election Greeley's wife died. Greeley himself wrote a few days later...
...Author. Born a Missourian in 1872, Rupert Hughes has been writing prolifically almost ever since, except when he was an Army Captain during the Spanish-American War, and serving on the Mexican border in 1916. Among his novels and plays: The Whirlwind, We Can't Have Everything, Cup of Fury, Beauty, Souls for Sale, Excuse Me, What Will People...
...Bucolic Missourian, He Sings of the Modern Farm...