Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition of valuable manuscripts and editions of the late Edwin Arlington Robinson, noted American poet, is now open in the poetry room of Widener Library...
Philip Horton, author of "Hart Crane, the Life of an American Poet," lectures tomorrow on "The Poetry of Hart Crane" at 4:30 o'clock in Sever Hall...
Back in Manhattan they formed a committee which enlisted such distinguished names as those of Photographer Arnold Genthe, Director Philip N. Youtz of the Brooklyn Museum, Poet Lincoln Kirstein, Choreographer Leon Leonidoff, Connoisseur Julien Levy, Designer Donald Oenslager, Publisher W. W. Norton, Critic John Martin, Radioman David Sarnoff. Patrons Edward M. M. Warburg and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Third in command was Miss Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's impressive sister and Sculptor Hoffman's longtime friend. With this backing,.Dance International steamed ahead to hold a competition among U. S. painters and sculptors, supplementing European and Oriental...
Cemetery Strike From Mexico to Manhattan last week went Poet Witter Bynner for the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Annie Brewer Bynner Wellington. Through Brooklyn's streets her funeral procession soberly rolled to Greenwood Cemetery, one of the world's largest burial grounds. When the hearse stopped at the general receiving vault, no cemetery employes appeared to take the casket. Poet Bynner's fellow-mourners carried it in themselves. There they discovered the 350 gravediggers, grass- cutters, gatekeepers, chauffeurs and other laborers, members of the C. I. O. United Cemetery Workers, had gone on strike in protest...
Vainly Witter Bynner pleaded with the gravediggers to bury his mother's body. At length, he and his friends deposited the casket on a shelf and Poet Bynner rushed to a telegraph office to appeal to President Roosevelt to do something about ''this affront to fundamental human rights." To the President and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins he wired that "there should be equitable Federal or State supervision over the status of cemetery employes, protecting them against injustice and also protecting the bereaved and unoffending citizen against a recurrence of such grievous indignity...