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...long wonder at this emblem of forgotten hatred and forgotten fear. After he became a parson, he could not lose his intense feeling for the past; when he told his Sunday school about Joshua, he could hear trumpets sounding and the roar of falling walls. His parish was in Norristown, Pa.; on winter nights he could imagine that the cold wind crying at his window was still blowing snowdrifts over an army's fires. In 1903 he outlined the Washington Memorial at Valley Forge. That same year, 125 years after Washington's soldiers had marched down the hill...
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...Ralph Beaver Strassburger of Pennsylvania dropped in to see the President and ask whether Countess Karolyi might not come to visit him at Norristown (see CABINET...
...consul in Paris to refuse a visa to Countess Karolyi, who had planned returning to this country for a lecture tour. It seems that she had planned to make a lecture tour and incidentally pay a social visit to her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Beaver Strassburger of Norristown, Pa. Finding that the State Department objected, she canceled her lecture engagements, thus making her visit purely social. It does not appear that the State Department had any official notification of the change in her plans, nor is it evident whether such knowledge would have made any difference in the Department...
...speech was followed by an announcement from The Norristown Times-Herald, newspaper of Ralph Beaver Strassburger of Pennsylvania, one of Mr. Johnson's political backers: " It is believed that Senator Johnson will announce his candidacy for the Presidency within the next week, in response to calls being made on him by many Republican leaders...