Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition a students' round table will be formed following the regular meeting at which a chance will be given for questioning the speakers. The charge for joining the Association is $1.00. This entitles them to attend the discussion which is to be held at the Copley-Plaza for an additional $.25, while non-members will have...
President Roosevelt and all other conferees had been driven up to a screened-off ground-floor entrance of the carefully screened, locked and guarded Capitol, whisked up to Governor Herring's office in a freshly-painted elevator. Governor Landon's escort took him around to the plaza in front of the Capitol. The crowd got a good look as. with more smiles and hat-waving, he trotted up the long steps. Once inside, he was led to a washroom. As he emerged, there appeared at another door, on the arm of his son John...
...suggest that we need not go back so far, as President William Howard Taft and Governor Woodrow Wilson met in the Copley Plaza hotel, Boston, less than two months before election day 1912. The President had come to speak at the banquet of the Congress of International Chambers of Commerce. Candidate Wilson was touring New England at the end of his campaign, and had ended his day at the same hotel. Along with other newspapermen I hoped for a meeting of the two candidates, and, those of us in the Wilson group, sought the Governor's permission to bring...
...Peru last week addressed an angry crowd. Said he: "I have just received cables from the Argentine, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico solidifying the Peruvian attitude against the crafty Berlin decision." The crowd, which had already torn down an Olympic flag, surged on to listen to more speeches in the Plaza San Martin. Later it proceeded to the German Consulate to throw stones at the windows until police arrived in trucks. At Callao, Lima seaport, workmen on the docks refused to load two German vessels...
Sculptor Donato arrived at City Hall Plaza in time to save Civil War Generals McClellan and Reynolds, but the bronze statues of Locomotive Manufacturer Matthias William Baldwin and John Christian Bullitt, grandfather of Ambassador William Christian ("Bill") Bul litt, had been thoroughly scraped, oiled and polished. Sculptor Donato again sprinted for the Mayor's office, there met with fur ther bad news. A third WPA crew, he was told, had got at a bronze Washington in front of Independence Hall, holystoned away every trace of its treasured greenish mold. The WPA ducked further trouble with aroused Sculptor Donato...