Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponents but not him. I was a boxer and soon after a contestant and winner in 1881 and 1882. There is no dispute: the records show it, and I have two cups to show. Incidentally I sat perched atop a partition at this meeting by the side of Classmate Owen Wister...
Biographer Pringle cites as his source p. 4 of Roosevelt, the Story of a Friendship (Macmillan, 1930) by Mr. Spalding's Classmate Owen Wister. Biographer Pringle was not aware Classmate Wister stood corrected. For the statement that Roosevelt at one time thought he had been champion, Biographer Pringle refers to the legislative scrapbooks at the Roosevelt Memorial Association...
...American Scholar" among the greatest orations of its type); Carl Schurz, Charles William Eliot, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, Josiah Royce, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The names of the poets include Everett, Emerson, and Holmes; William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Brot Harte, Owen Wister, Barrett Wendell, Robert Frost, Bliss Carman, Alfred Noyes, and Stephen Vincent Benet...
...plan is a significant one. In contrast to Owen D. Young's tearful pleas for money to tide over the starving, here is a hard-headed measure of a man's real willingness to work. The asperities of rock-hammer and timber-axe will soon enough sort out the industrious needy from the conveniently unemployed. Any able-bodied man can keep body and soul together at the work provided without a drain upon the state, thus greatly lessening the need for downright dole...
Young Truth. The name of Owen D. Young has lately faded almost completely out of the Democratic presidential picture, yet not far enough out to suit General Electric's board chairman. Last week Editor Hubert Lee of Dixie Business in Atlanta received a letter from Mr. Young: "... I have no desire or thought of entering politics under any circumstances and my disappointment is that people still persist in disbelieving my statements. I should think that one of the first qualifications for the Presidency would be not only to tell the truth but also to have people believe that...