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Georgia last week began raising $100,000 to build a monument to one of its two great literary heroes, the late Joel Chandler Harris, author of the "Uncle Remus" stories.* Throughout the State's public schools, where his birthday in December is annually celebrated, collection boxes were to be distributed so that moppets with dimes, nickels and pennies could share in honoring the man who gave them the tales of the foxiness of Brer Fox and the agility of Brer Rabbit. First substantial gift came from Col. Sam Tate, president of Georgia Marble Co., who lives in a huge...
...others, he left one-tenth. Under studious Ralph and socialite Herbert the World slowly lost most of its prestige and all its profits. Under able young Joseph the Post-Dispatch continued affluent and influential. When the wrecked World was sold in 1931, the Post-Dispatch remained the last monument to the liberal, crusading principles of Pulitzer journalism...
...twice her age, he laid away his affection for her in the attic of his soul where, he said later, "one stores lovely but hopeless emotions.'' Later he changed his mind, and one chilly December evening sitting on a bench near the foot of the Washington Monument he proposed. When accepted, he felt obliged to offer his resignation from the Cabinet. It was declined. In March his engagement was announced. On May 7, 1914 the Cabinet tendered him a luncheon at which he declared that his feelings were like those of the mountaineer who went out into...
...thousand San Franciscans attended his funeral in the Masonic cemetery, arranged at a reputed cost of $10,000 by the Pacific Club. Unfortunately, there was no money left for a monument. Last year Jesuits bought the cemetery and the remains of Norton I were removed to a vault. Last week San Franciscans, most of whom knew of the mad old man, his plumed silk hat and gold-ferruled cane only by hearsay, turned out by the hundreds to rebury him at Woodlawn Memorial Park in San Mateo County...
...Hudson at West Point one afternoon last week, the U. S. Military Academy's graduating class of 250 sat tense in full-dress uniform, rank on solemn rank. Parents, friends, generals flanked them beneath the trees. Under a flag-draped marquee at the base of the Battle Monument,. Wartime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker rose to warn of the world's unrest. Then he stepped down to hand out the white, ribbon-tied diplomas...